Excavations [ edit ]

• Aetos 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 ^[1]

Finds [ edit ]

• 17 February - Derrynaflan Chalice in the south of Ireland . ^[2]
• 28 March - Talpiot Tomb in Jerusalem .
• August - Wreck of the Breadalbane in the Northwest Passage . ^[3]
• Wreck of HMS  Restoration  (1678) on the Goodwin Sands . ^[4]
• Wreck of the paddle steamer Eric Nordevall in Vattern in Sweden. ^[5]
• Wreck of American Great Lakes whaleback barge 115 in Lake Superior . ^[6]
• Frieze at Aphrodisias in Anatolia showing Claudius subjugating Britannia . ^[7]

Publications [ edit ]

• W. A. McCutcheon - The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland . Belfast: HMSO . ISBN   0-337-08154-9 .

Events [ edit ]

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

Births [ edit ]

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Deaths [ edit ]

• January 2 - Rhys Carpenter , American Classical art historian (b. 1889 )
• August 24 - Andre Parrot , French archaeologist of the Near East (b. 1901 ) ^[8]
• 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 [ edit ]

• Pompeii

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