1930 in archaeology

Explorations

This section is empty. You can help by adding to it.

Excavations

• Vere Gordon Childe completes excavations at Skara Brae (begun in 1928).
• John Garstang begins excavations at Jericho (continue to 1936).
• Francis Llewellyn Griffith excavates at Kawa (Sudan).
• Flinders Petrie begins excavations at Tall al-Ajjul (continue to 1934).

Finds

• August 5 - Remains of S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 discovered.

Publications

• Aleš Hrdlička - The Skeletal Remains of Early Man.

Miscellaneous

• Max Mallowan marries Agatha Christie.
• Max von Oppenheim opens a private museum of his Near Eastern archaeological finds in Berlin.

Births

• November 21 - Lewis Binford, American archaeologist.

Deaths

This section is empty. You can help by adding to it.

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1929 in archaeology
• 1931 in archaeology