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Excavations

  • Aëtos Hill, Menelaion Ridge, Laconia, Greece, takes place under H. W. Catling.
  • San Vincenzo al Volturno by the British School of Archaeology at Rome begin (continue to 1986).
  • Ain Dara temple, Syria; continues until 1985.
  • Excavations begin at Dryslwyn Castle in Wales under the direction of Chris Caple; the dig lasts until 1995 and the results written up in a monograph published by the Society for Medieval Archaeology in 2007

Finds

  • 17 February - Derrynaflan Chalice in the south of Ireland.
  • 28 March - Talpiot Tomb in Jerusalem.
  • August - Wreck of the Breadalbane in the Northwest Passage.
  • Wreck of on the Goodwin Sands.
  • Wreck of the paddle steamer Eric Nordevall in Vättern in Sweden.
  • Wreck of American Great Lakes whaleback barge 115 in Lake Superior.
  • Frieze at Aphrodisias in Anatolia showing Claudius subjugating Britannia.

Publications

  • W. A. McCutcheon - The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. Belfast: HMSO. .

Events

  • 19 December - Chaco Canyon National Monument is renamed Chaco Culture National Historical Park with 13,000 acres (53&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) added. The Chaco Culture Archaeological Protection Site program is created to protect Chacoan sites.

Deaths

  • January 2 - Rhys Carpenter, American Classical art historian (b. 1889)
  • August 24 - André Parrot, French archaeologist of the Near East (b. 1901)
  • September 8
  • Willard Libby, American physical chemist, key developer of radiocarbon dating (b. 1908)
  • Keith Muckelroy, British maritime archaeologist, in diving accident (b. 1951)
  • November 16 - Don Crabtree, American experimental archaeologist (b. 1912)

See also

  • Pompeii

References