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1979 in archaeology
Summary
The
year 1979 in
archaeology
involved some significant events.
List of years in archaeology
(
table
)
…
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
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In science
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Science
+...
Explorations
edit
Tillya Tepe
surveyed by a
Soviet
-
Afghan
mission of archaeologists led by
Victor Sarianidi
.
Excavations
edit
Hengistbury Head
by
Barry Cunliffe
(continues to
1984
).
Finds
edit
July -
Fossil
hominid
footprints found at
Laetoli
,
Tanzania
, by
Mary Leakey
.
Wreck of
SS
Xantho
found off
Western Australia
.
[1]
Wreck of
HMS
Stirling Castle
(1679)
found on the
Goodwin Sands
.
Wreck of
English ship
Swan
(1641)
found off the west coast of
Scotland
.
Wreck of French-built English ship
HMS
Invincible
(1747)
found in
The Solent
.
Burial site related to the 1918
execution of the Romanov family
at
Yekaterinburg
, by
Alexander Avdonin
.
[2]
Roman fort at
Elginhaugh
discovered by air-photography.
Black rat
bones from about the fifth century AD reported as found in
York
, the first pre-medieval record in England.
[3]
The prehistoric site of Isernia La Pineta discovered during the construction of a road link of Strada statale 85.
Publications
edit
Aubrey Burl
-
Prehistoric Avebury
.
J. M. Coles
and A. F. Harding -
The Bronze Age in Europe: an introduction to the prehistory of Europe, c.2000–700 BC
.
Kenneth Hudson
-
World Industrial Archaeology
.
A. L. F. Rivet and Colin Smith -
The Place-names of Roman Britain
.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History
series founded by David Brown,
James Campbell
, and
Sonia Chadwick Hawkes
.
[4]
Events
edit
June 2 - Protesters opposed to the building of civic offices on the site of
Viking
excavations in
Wood Quay
,
Dublin
, occupy the area.
Births
edit
February 8 -
Stuart Wilson
,
English
archaeologist working in Wales
Deaths
edit
January 15 -
Yang Zhongjian
, father of
Chinese
vertebrate
paleontology
, buried at
Peking Man
site in
Zhoukoudian
, China (b.
1897
)
January 20 -
Robert Wauchope
,
American
archaeologist and anthropologist (b.
1909
)
January 24 -
Raissa Calza
, Ukrainian-born archaeologist of
Ancient Rome
, previously ballet dancer (b.
1894
)
August 1 -
Li Ji
, Chinese archaeologist (b.
1896
)
[5]
August 25 -
Alberto Ruz Lhuillier
,
Mexican
archaeologist, discoverer of the tomb of
K'inich Janaab' Pakal
at
Palenque
(b.
1906
)
December 14 -
Charles McBurney
,
American
-born archaeologist working in Britain (b.
1914
)
References
edit
^
"SS Xantho". Western Australian Museum
. Retrieved
2017-04-17
.
^
Coble, Michael D. (2011-09-26). "The identification of the Romanovs".
Investigative Genetics
.
2
(1): 20.
doi
:
10.1186/2041-2223-2-20
.
PMC
3205009
.
PMID
21943354.
^
James Rackham,
Antiquity
53
:112.
^
"Obituary: Sonia Chadwick Hawkes".
The Independent
. Retrieved
2023-01-30
.
^
"Li Chi".
Encyclopædia Britannica Online
. Retrieved
17 May
2017
.