Below are notable events inarchaeology that occurred in1949.

• November 21–23 - FirstInternationales Sachsensymposion held.
• University of New Mexico transfers lands to theNational Park Service and expandsChaco Canyon National Monument, with the proviso that the university may continue scientific research.

• February 15 -Gerald Lankester Harding andRoland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of theQumran Caves in theWest Bank region ofJordan, the location of the first sevenDead Sea Scrolls.
• Excavation work recommences at thePeking Man Site inZhoukoudian,China.
• Alberto Ruz Lhuillier begins excavations of the Temple of the Inscriptions,Palenque.
• Seton Lloyd begins excavations atSakçagözü.
• Grahame Clark begins excavations atStar Carr,North Yorkshire (continues to 1951).
• Conclusion of excavations in theVatican Necropolis.

• Radiocarbon dating technique discovered byWillard Libby and his colleagues during his tenure as a professor at theUniversity of Chicago.
• Anak Tomb No. 3 (dated 357 CE) found inNorth Korea.
• New excavations atPeking Man Site inZhoukoudian,China unearth 5 teeth and fragments of thigh and shin bone.
• First new discoveries ofNimrud ivories byBritish School of Archaeology in Iraq led byMax Mallowan.^[1]
• 12th centurymurals discovered inCoombes Church, West Sussex, England.

• 'C. W. Ceram' -Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte (Gods, Graves and Scholars: the story of archaeology).
• T. D. Kendrick -Late Saxon and Viking Art.

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• Dolores Piperno - American archaeologist^[2]

• 23 April -Percy Newberry, English archaeologist (b.1869)

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