1951 in archaeology

Excavations

• c. January - Old Furnace, Coalbrookdale, England.
• Awwam temple near Ma'rib in Yemen, by Wendell Phillips of the American Foundation for the Study of Man.
• Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications in North Yorkshire, by Mortimer Wheeler.
• Hod Hill in Dorset, by Ian Richmond for the British Museum.
• Tasghîmût fortress in Morocco, by Charles Allain and Jacques Meunié.
• Excavation of Chogha Zanbil in Iran by Roman Ghirshman begins.

  Finds

• May 12 - Gunnister Man found in a peat bog in Shetland.

  Events

• July - The term "Industrial archaeology" is first used in print in Britain.
• The Durrës Archaeological Museum is established in Durrës, Albania.

  Publications

• Social Evolution, by V. Gordon Childe, Australian-born archaeologist.
• The Prehistory of Wales, by W. F. Grimes, Welsh archaeologist.
• A Land, by Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist.

  Births

• Keith Muckelroy, British maritime archaeologist

  Deaths

• February 28 - Maud Cunnington, British archaeologist