1934 in archaeology

Explorations

• Maya site of Becan rediscovered by archaeologists Karl Ruppert and John Denison.

  Excavations

• Poznań University project at Biskupin begins, led by Józef Kostrzewski and Zdzisław Rajewski.
• Snaketown, Arizona, under direction of Harold S. Galdwin.
• Kennet Avenue, by Alexander Keiller.
• Maiden Castle, Dorset, by Mortimer Wheeler.
• Persepolis, by Erich Schmidt.
• Qafzeh cave excavations at Mount Precipice begin, led by René Neuville, uncovering remains of Hominidae dated to ca. 95,000 years BP.
• The site of the statue of the Warrior of Capestrano, accidentally discovered this year, is investigated by Giuseppe Moretti.
• Viking Age ruins at Igaliku in Greenland, by Aage Roussell, Eigil Knuth and Poul Nørlund.

  Finds

• 2 January: Warka Vase found at Uruk.
• The Statue of Ebih-Il is unearthed in Mari, Syria, by a French team.

  Publications

Events

• Russian paleophytologist V. A. Petrov sees a Latin stone inscription near Füzuli, Azerbaijan, mentioning Legio XII Fulminata; its exact location is unknown.

  Births

• January 1 - Khaled al-Asaad, Syrian archaeologist
• May 13 - Ehud Netzer, Professor of archeology at Hebrew University known for his excavations related to Herod the Great
• September 2 - Donald B. Redford, Canadian Egyptologist
• Giovanni Colonna, Italian archaeologist of the Etruscan civilization

  Deaths

• March 14 - Francis Llewellyn Griffith, British Egyptologist
• March 15 - Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist
• November 23 - E. A. Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist.