1958 in archaeology

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The year 1958 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison.

Excavations

Maya site of Dzibilchaltun, National Geographic Society project under E. Wyllys Andrews IV.
Excavation project at Sardis by Harvard University and Cornell University begins.
Excavation at Great Zimbabwe under Roger Summers.
Excavations at Adlun in Southern Lebanon under Dorothy Garrod begin (continue to 1963).
Excavations at Vaishali in Bihar begin (continue to 1962).

Finds

Workshop of Phidias at Olympia.
Çatalhöyük.
July 4: St Ninian's Isle Treasure by Douglas Coutts.

Publications

M. W. Beresford and J. K. S. St Joseph - Medieval England : an aerial survey.
John Chadwick - The Decipherment of Linear B.
Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips - Method and Theory in American Archaeology.

Births

May 18: David Mattingly, British archaeologist and historian of the Roman world.

Deaths

August 17: John Marshall (archaeologist)