1934 in archaeology

• 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, United States, under direction of Harold S. Galdwin. • Kennet Avenue, by Alexander Keiller (continues to 1935). • Maiden Castle, Dorset, by Mortimer Wheeler (continues to 1937). • Persepolis, by Erich Schmidt (continues to 1939). • 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. ==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 (d. 2015) • May 13 - Ehud Netzer, Professor of archeology at Hebrew University known for his excavations related to Herod the Great (d. 2010) • August 11 - Graham Connah, English-born archaeologist • September 2 - Donald B. Redford, Canadian Egyptologist • September 4 - Giovanni Colonna, Italian archaeologist of the Etruscan civilization ==Deaths==

• January 29 - Albert Lythgoe, American Egyptologist, curator of the New York Metropolitan Museum (b. 1868) • March 14 - Francis Llewellyn Griffith, British Egyptologist (b. 1862) • March 15 - Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist (b. 1884) • November 23 - E. A. Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist. (b. 1857) ==References==