Explorations

Excavations

Mixco Viejo, Guatemala Musée d'Homme project under the direction of Henri Lehmann starts (continues through 1967).
Neolithic-era site of Ashkelon discovered and excavated by French archaeologist Jean Perrot.
Excavations at Beycesultan by Seton Lloyd of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara begin (continue to 1959).
Excavations at Filitosa, Corsica, begin.
Excavations at Nagarjunakonda by the Archaeological Survey of India begin (continue to 1960).
Excavations at Nevasa, Maharashtra, begin (continue to 1956).
Excavations of the London Mithraeum conducted under the direction of W. F. Grimes.^[1]
Systematic excavations at Niah Caves begin under the direction of the Sarawak Museum.

September 18 - Marble head of Mithras from London Mithraeum unearthed in Walbrook Square by W. F. Grimes's excavation.^[1]
Panlongcheng Erligang culture site in China discovered.
Khufu ship discovered in Giza pyramid complex by Kamal el-Mallakh.
Cape Gelidonya shipwreck discovered.

Sir Mortimer Wheeler is named Television Personality of the Year in the U.K. due to his contributions to Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?^[2]

Maurice Beresford - The Lost Villages of England.
R. Allen Brown - English Medieval Castles.
Grahame Clark - Excavations at Star Carr, an early Mesolithic site at Seamer near Scarborough, Yorkshire.
V. E. Nash-Williams - The Roman Frontier in Wales.
Stuart Piggott - The Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles: a study of the stone-using agricultural communities of Britain in the second millennium B.C.