Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1930.

• Vere Gordon Childe completes excavations at Skara Brae (begun in 1927).^[1]
• John Garstang begins excavations at Jericho (continue to 1936).
• Francis Llewellyn Griffith excavates at Kawa (Sudan).
• Flinders Petrie begins excavations at Tall al-Ajjul (continue to 1934).

• August 5 - Remains of S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 discovered.
• First fragments from an ancient boat harbour found on the bank of the Suojoki river in central Finland (one boat from site later dated to 13th century).^[2]

• Aleš Hrdlička - The Skeletal Remains of Early Man.

• September 11 - Max Mallowan marries Agatha Christie.
• Max von Oppenheim opens a private museum of his Near Eastern archaeological finds in Berlin.
• Edwin Smith Papyrus first translated.

• March 25 - John M. Coles, English prehistorian (d. 2020)
• June 13 - Paul Veyne, French Roman archaeologist, historian
• September 23 - Edda Bresciani, Italian Egyptologist (d. 2020)

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