1950 in archaeology

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Explorations

Spring: Explorations at Timna in Yemen by Wendell Phillips of the American Foundation for the Study of Man (continues in 1951).

Excavations

Excavations at Stonehenge by R. J. C. Atkinson, Stuart Piggott and J. F. S. Stone.
Excavations at Wharram Percy by Maurice Beresford begin.
Excavations at Beitin.
Excavations at Gordium by the University of Pennsylvania Museum under Rodney S. Young begin.

Finds

A third premolar is discovered in materials sent back to Sweden by Otto Zdansky from his excavations of the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, China in 1921 and 1923
The Upchurch Hoard is discovered in Upchurch, Kent.
A bog body known as "Tollund Man" is discovered in Denmark.

Publications

T. C. Lethbridge - Herdsmen and Hermits: Celtic Seafarers in the Northern Seas.
V. E. Nash-Williams - The Early Christian Monuments of Wales.

Births

January 25 - Phil Harding, English field archaeologist

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