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The year 1952 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Explorations 2 Excavations 3 Publications 4 Finds 5 Miscellaneous 6 Births 7 Deaths

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[edit] Excavations

• Alberto Ruz Lhuillier opens the tomb of Pacal the Great at Palenque.
• Major excavations begin at Viking burial site of Lindholm Høje.
• Excavations at Jerico led by Kathleen Kenyon begin (continues to 1958).
• Excavations at the Palace of Nestor in Pylos resume (first started in 1939) by Carl Blegen (continues to 1969).
• Oscar Broneer discovers and begins excavations of the Temple of Poseidon in Isthmia.

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[edit] Miscellaneous

• Grahame Clark is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.

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