1994 in archaeology

none January 2021 1994 archaeology science The year 1994 in archaeology involved some significant events. Excavations National Institute of Anthropology and History excavations at Maya site of Chacchoben begin Ruth Shady's work on the Norte Chico civilization site at Caral in Peru begins Martin Carver's excavations of an early medieval Pictish monastery at Portmahomack, Scotland, begin Jeffrey P. Brain begins work on the Popham ColonyWoodard, Colin (August 15, 2007). "Popham, Maine's 'lost' colony, to get its modest due". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved April 12, 2023. Publications Alan K. Bowman – Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and its People (British Museum). Marc Bermann – Lukurmata: Household Archaeology in Prehispanic Bolivia (Princeton University Press). Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza – The History and Geography of Human Genes (Princeton University Press). Gillian Hutchinson – Medieval Ships and Shipping (Leicester University Press). Naomi F. Miller and Kathryn L. Gleason (ed.) – The Archaeology of Garden and Field (University of Pennsylvania Press). John Schofield and Alan Vince – Medieval Towns (Leicester University Press). Finds 26 June – British submarine Vandal, lost on sea trials in 1943,http://www.clydemaritime.co.uk/hms_vandal The Loss of HM Submarine Vandal (P64) off the Isle of Arran in 1943 ClydeMaritime Angus MacKinnon 2010 2018-02-24 is rediscovered in the Sound of Bute off the west coast of Scotland.http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/119151/details/hms+m+vandal+inchmarnock+water+sound+of+bute+firth+of+clyde/?date=asc HMS/M Vandal: Inchmarnock Water, Sound of Bute, Firth of Clyde Canmore Historic Environment Scotland Edinburgh 2011 2018-02-24August 2026 InternetArchiveBot Late – Marine archaeologists led by Jean-Yves Empereur find remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt.Nova https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/ Treasures of the Sunken City 2012-01-12 November 1997 December Spotted horses and human hands, Pech Merle cave, Dordogne, France (painted c. 16000 BC). Wall painting with horses, rhinoceroses and aurochs, Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche Gorges, France (made c. 25,000–17,000 BC). Kafkania pebble. Moroccan gold coins and jewellery discovered at Salcombe Cannon Wreck site off the coast of south-west England. Diver Colin Martin discovers the wreck of the Hanover (built 1757) off the coast of Cornwall. Sannai-Maruyama Site discovered at Aomori, northern Honshu, Japan (mainly of Jōmon period). Recovery of Homo antecessor skeletal remains from the Trinchera Dolina at the archaeological site of Atapuerca in northern Spain begins; these are the oldest known hominid fossils found in western Europe (between 850,000 and 780,000 years old). 'Ardi', the fossilized skeletal remains of a female Ardipithecus ramidus, discovered at Aramis, Ethiopia, in the Afar Depression, the oldest known hominid fossil (4.4 million years old). First of the Schöningen spears.Conard Nicholas J. Serangeli Jordi Bigga Gerlinde Rots Veerle May 2020 A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1139-0 Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 5 690–693 10.1038/s41559-020-1139-0 32313174 2020NatEE...4..690C 216033478 2397-334X subscription Other events 16 January – British archaeological television series Time Team first shown on Channel 4. 12 March – Kabul Museum building hit by rocket fire and destroyed. ASPRO chronology published.ASPRO: Atlas des Sites du Proche-Orient 11 June 2013 http://www.mom.fr/ressources-numeriques/bases-de-donnees/ASPRO Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux 2020-06-22 The British Library acquires the Kharosti scrolls, the oldest collection of Buddhist manuscripts in the world. Deaths 10 March – Rupert Bruce-Mitford, English archaeologist (b. 1914) 27 March – Elisabeth Schmid, German archaeologist and osteologist (b. 1912)Ogilvie Marilyn Harvey Joy Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie Joy Harvey The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century 2003 Routledge 9781135963422 https://books.google.com/books?id=FlxsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT1716 8 September – Margaret Guido, English archaeologist (b. 1912) 10 October – Richard J. C. Atkinson, English archaeologist and prehistorian (b. 1920)Obituary: Professor Richard Atkinson https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/obituary-professor-richard-atkinson-1443428.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/obituary-professor-richard-atkinson-1443428.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent 30 May 2017 17 October 1994 References Category:Archaeology by year Category:1990s in archaeology Archaeology