1954 in archaeology

List of years in archaeology (table)
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The year 1954 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Mixco Viejo, Guatemala Musée d'Homme project under the direction of Henri Lehmann starts (continues through 1967).
Neolithic-era site of Ashkelon discovered and excavated by French archaeologist Jean Perrot.
Excavations at Beycesultan by Seton Lloyd of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara begin (continue to 1959).
Excavations at Filitosa, Corsica, begin.
Excavations at Nagarjunakonda by the Archaeological Survey of India begin (continue to 1960).
Excavations at Nevasa, Maharashtra, begin (continue to 1956).

Maurice Beresford - The Lost Villages of England.
R. Allen Brown - English Medieval Castles.
Grahame Clark - Excavations at Star Carr, an early Mesolithic site at Seamer near Scarborough, Yorkshire.
V. E. Nash-Williams - The Roman Frontier in Wales.
Stuart Piggott - The Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles: a study of the stone-using agricultural communities of Britain in the second millennium B.C.