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Explorations

  • Historic American Engineering Record surveys the original main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Excavations

  • June - Wreck of Spanish Armada ship El Gran Grifón off Fair Isle excavated by Colin Martin and Sydney Wignall.
  • Joint British Museum, Harvard University and University of Cambridge project begins at Maya site of Lubaantun under leadership of Norman Hammond.
  • Five-year project at Altun Ha, led by Dr. David Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum, ends.
  • Retrieval of artefacts from wreck of Batavia off Western Australia begins.
  • Joint Archaeological Survey of India and University of Cambridge excavations at Malvan in Gujarat.
  • Alepotrypa cave in Greece.

Publications

  • P. V. Glob - Hojfolket: Bronzealderens mennesker bevaret i 3000 år (The Mound People: Danish bronze-age man preserved).

Finds

  • July - Heilongjiang hand cannon, dating from c. 1288, discovered by Wei Guozhong in Manchuria.
  • October 21 - Loose timber from the wreck of the Tudor warship Mary Rose found in the Solent off the coast of England.
  • October 25 - Submarine CSS H. L. Hunley (sunk in action 1864) is claimed to be located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, by E. Lee Spence.
  • First Botorrita plaque.
  • Sweet Track discovered by John Sweet in the Somerset Levels of England.
  • Blackfriars Ships III and IV discovered by Peter Marsden in London.
  • Buckquoy spindle-whorl, dating from the Early Middle Ages, probably the 8th century, excavated in Buckquoy, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland; notable because of its Ogham inscription.

Events

  • July 12 - Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados after a 57-day voyage from Morocco.
  • Butser Ancient Farm set up as an experimental archaeology site by the Council for British Archaeology.

Births

  • March 9 – Fereidoun Biglari, Iranian archaeologist and museum curator

Deaths

  • May 6 - Sir John Beazley, British Classical archaeologist (b. 1885)
  • May 29 - Jaroslav Černý, Czech-British Egyptologist (b. 1898)

See also

  • List of years in archaeology
  • 1969 in archaeology
  • 1971 in archaeology

References