1996 in archaeology

none 1996 archaeology science The year 1996 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Preliminary survey of Buckton Castle in the north west of England. A Bronze Age site, al-Moghraqa, was discovered by Moain Sadeq in Gaza Governorate, Palestine.Gaza Research Project. Report on the 1999 and 2000 Seasons at al-Moghraqa Steel Louise Clarke Joanne Sadeq Moain Manley Bill McCarthy Andrew Munro R. Neil Levant 2004 36 37 10.1179/lev.2004.36.1.37 December: the Byzantine Church of Jabalia in Palestine is discovered during repairs to the Salah al-Din Road.Humbert Jean-Baptiste Abu Hassuneh Yasser Hassuneh Aymân Abu Muhammar Mahmud Mukheitem à Jabaliyah, un site byzantin Mukheitem at Jabaliyah, a Byzantine site Gaza Méditerranéenne: Histoire et archéologie en Palestine 2000 fr 121 Éditions Errance Excavations July – excavations at Blakhiya Byzantine cemetery in Palestine take place under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of Gaza and the École Biblique.Morhange Christophe Taha Mohamed Hamdan Humbert Jean-Baptiste Marriner Nick Human settlement and coastal change in Gaza since the Bronze Age Méditerranée: Revue géographique des pays méditerranéens 104 2005 75–78 10.4000/mediterranee.2252 free Large-scale, wide-scope horizontal excavations begin at Daepyeong, a large Mumun Pottery Period settlement in Korea (continued until early 2000). Excavations near Bogazköy by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft begin (continued until 1999). Excavation of the Portuguese nau Nossa Senhora dos Mártires (1605–06) at the mouth of the Tagus begins (continued until 2001). First excavation of medieval drain at Paisley Abbey in Scotland. Publications Matthew Johnson - An Archaeology of Capitalism (Blackwell). Denise Schmandt-Besserat - How Writing Came About (University of Texas Press). Rita P. Wright (ed.) - Gender and Archaeology (University of Pennsylvania Press). First issue of e-journal Internet Archaeology. Finds July: Mass grave of victims of the Battle of Towton (1461) in England. July 28: Kennewick Man in the United States. August 4: Seaton Carew Wreck in England. November 21: Pirate flagship Queen Anne's Revenge (run aground 1718) in North Carolina. Herxheim archaeological site, a Neolithic Linear Pottery culture ritual center and mass grave at Herxheim in southwest Germany. The Keltenfürst (Celtic prince) of Glauberg in Germany, a life-size sandstone statue of a warrior dating from the 5th century BCE.F.-M. Bosinski F.-R. Herrmann Zu den frühkeltischen Statuen vom Glauberg Ber. Komm. Arch. Landesforsch. Hessen 5, 1998/99 2000 41–48 Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription in Israel. Lod Mosaic in Israel. Croatian Apoxyomenos off the Croatian islet of Vele Orjule. Hermes of Messene in Messene, Greece. Ōfune Site, one of the Jōmon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidō, Japan. "Great Dover Street woman" from Roman Britain in London.https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/13/science/archaeologists-may-have-found-woman-gladiatoracutes-grave.html Archaeologists May Have Found Woman Gladiator's Grave 2000-09-13 The New York Times 2021-09-02 Polychrome wall paintings (dated to 1090) at church of St Mary the Virgin in the deserted village of Houghton on the Hill, Norfolk, England.The Wall Paintings https://www.houghtonstmarys.org.uk/wall-paintings St Mary's Church 2021-04-04 Events Yale University Bonampak Documentation Project begins at Maya site of Bonampak. November 2: Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum opens in Japan. Deaths January 17- William Lamplough, British archaeologist (b. 1914). March 18 - Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist (b. 1910).Obituary: Jacquetta Hawkes https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jacquetta-hawkes-1343032.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jacquetta-hawkes-1343032.html 2022-05-01 subscription The Independent 30 May 2017 20 March 1996 September 23 - Stuart Piggott, British archaeologist (b. 1910).Obituary: Professor Stuart Piggott https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-stuart-piggott-1365215.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-stuart-piggott-1365215.html 2022-05-01 subscription The Independent 30 May 2017 27 September 1996 November 14 - Martyn Jope, British archaeologist and biochemist (b. 1915). December 9 - Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913). References Category:Archaeology by year Archaeology Category:1990s in archaeology