Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1946.
Explorations Maria Reiche begins to map the Nazca Lines. Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov investigates the burial site of Yuri Dolgorukiy (d. 1157) at the Church of the Saviour at Berestove in Ukraine but no remains are found.
Excavations Ferriby Boats 1 and 2 excavated in England. Three-year excavation of Eridu by Fuad Safar and Seton Lloyd of the Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities and Heritage begins.
Publications November - Agatha Christie Mallowan, Come, Tell Me How You Live.
Finds Lacandon Maya lead photographer/explorer Giles Healey to Bonampak, the first time it is known to have been visited by a non-Mayan. Filitosa, Corsica, discovered. November - First Dead Sea Scrolls discovered. Births July 1 - Mick Aston, English archaeologist best known for his work on Time Team (died 2013) August 12 - Bryony Coles, née Orme, English prehistoric landscape archaeologist December 29 - Ruth Shady, Peruvian archaeologist
Deaths November 17 - Max von Oppenheim, German Near Eastern archaeologist (born 1860)
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