1950 in archaeology

	1780s . 1790s in archaeology . 1800;
	Other events: 1790s . Archaeology timeline

	… 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; ; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; ; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960 …;
	In science 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
	Art; Archaeology; Architecture; Literature; Music; Philosophy; Science; +...
	v; t; e;

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1950.

Explorations

Spring: Explorations at Timna in Yemen by Wendell Phillips of the American Foundation for the Study of Man (continues in 1951).

Excavations at Stonehenge in the south of England by R. J. C. Atkinson, Stuart Piggott and J. F. S. Stone.
Excavations at Wharram Percy in the north of England by Maurice Beresford begin.
Excavations at Beitin, West Bank.
Excavations at Gordion in Turkey by the University of Pennsylvania Museum under Rodney S. Young begin.

March 1 - A hoard of Roman coins is discovered at Hordley Grange, Shropshire, England.
May 8 - A bog body known as "Tollund Man" is discovered in Denmark.^[1]
The Upchurch Hoard is discovered in Upchurch, Kent, England.
A third premolar is discovered in materials sent back to Sweden by Otto Zdansky from his excavations of the Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian, China in 1921 and 1923.
Balfarg, a prehistoric site in Fife, Scotland, is discovered through air photography.^[2]
Three Roman mosaic pavements are found at Harpham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Stabiae (buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius) is rediscovered.
The Garima Gospels at Abba Garima Monastery in Ethiopia first become known to Western scholars.

T. C. Lethbridge - Herdsmen and Hermits: Celtic Seafarers in the Northern Seas.^[4]
V. E. Nash-Williams - The Early Christian Monuments of Wales.^[5]

January 27 - Herbert Eustis Winlock, American Egyptologist who worked for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (b. 1884)^[6]

^ "Who Were the Ancient Bog Mummies? Surprising New Clues". National Geographic. 2014. Archived from the original on July 22, 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
^ "Balfarg". canmore.org.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
^ Aitken, M. J. (1990). Science-based Dating in Archaeology. London: Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-49309-4.
^ Herdsmen & hermits; Celtic seafarers in the northern seas. OCLC 227899.
^ "Nash-Williams, Victor Erle". The National Library of Wales - Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
^ Who Was Who 1941–1950. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 1980. ISBN 0-7136-2131-1.