1939 in archaeology

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The year 1939 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• University of Pennsylvania project at Piedras Negras, Guatemala ends (started 1931).
• Palace of Nestor in Pylos by Carl Blegen (resumed 1952-69).
• Tomb of Psusennes at Tanis by Pierre Montet (started 1928).

Publications

• Grahame Clark: Archaeology and Society.

Finds

• Matthew Stirling discovers the bottom half of Stela C at Tres Zapotes.
• May: Sutton Hoo ship burial unearthed by Basil Brown and Edith Pretty in Suffolk, England.

Miscellaneous

• May 6: Dorothy Garrod is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair.

Births

• November 6: Peter J. Reynolds, English experimental archaeologist (d. 2001)
• December 10: Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist

Deaths

• March 2: Howard Carter, English Egyptologist (b. 1874)