The year 1962 in archaeology involved some significant events.

• Ian Graham makes first map of Maya site of El Mirador.
• Historic American Buildings Survey records Johnson's Mill Bridge, a wooden covered bridge over Chickie's Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

• Little Brickhill excavations 1962–1964 in Buckinghamshire, England.
• Ongoing excavations at Aphrodisias in Anatolia begun by Kenan Erim under the aegis of New York University.
• Excavation of Tel Arad by Yohanan Aharoni (continues until 1967).

• Lewis R. Binford - Archaeology as Anthropology.
• Peter H. Sawyer - The Age of the Vikings

• January 15 - The Derveni papyrus, which dates to 340 BCE, making it the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, is discovered at a grave site in Macedonia (Greece).
• September 6 - Blackfriars Ship I discovered by Peter Marsden in London.
• October 8 - Bremen cog discovered in the Weser.^[1]
• Neolithic remains at Jiahu discovered by Zhu Zhi.
• First evidence for human occupation of Australia during the last glacial period discovered at Kenniff Cave, Queensland.

• March - First Conference of Western Archaeologists on Problems of Point Typology at Idaho State College Museum.

• Nikolai Grube, German Mayan epigrapher
• Li Feng, Chinese American sinologist

• William Duncan Strong, American archaeologist (born 1899)