1984 in archaeology

none 1984 archaeology science The year 1984 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Ian Graham makes first scientific examination and map of Maya site of Cival. Excavations Hengistbury Head, by Barry Cunliffe, is completed (begun in 1979). Khok Phanom Di, by Charles Higham (1984–85). May - An M4 Sherman amphibious tank lost off Slapton, England during Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for the 1944 Invasion of Normandy, is recovered.Slapton Sands Tank Submerged https://www.submerged.co.uk/slapton/ 2023-12-30 July - Uluburun shipwreck, by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology under George Bass, begun (continues until 1994).Cemal Pulak The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun http://www.ancientcyprus.ac.uk/papers/iriawreck/pulak1.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20010708002143/http://www.ancientcyprus.ac.uk/Papers/iriawreck/pulak1.asp dead 2001-07-08 Ancient Cyprus Web Project 2011-08-13 Publications Richard Bradley The Social Foundations of Prehistoric Britain: themes and variations in the archaeology of power 1984 London Longman 0-582-49163-0 A. F Harding The Mycenaeans and Europe 28 January 1984 London Academic Press 0-12-324760-8 Kelso William M William Kelso Kingsmill Plantation, 1619-1800: archaeology of country life in colonial Virginia 1984 Orlando Academic Press 0-12-403480-2 Pilcher, J. R. A 7,272-year tree-ring chronology for western Europe Nature 1984 312 150–152 10.1038/312150a0 5990 1984Natur.312..150P 4341922 etal Finds July - Pirate ship Whydah Gally (wrecked off Cape Cod in 1717) discovery announced. August 1 - Lindow Man is found in Lindow Moss in north west England by peat cutters.Long Chris Lindow Man: Gruesome discovery who became 'international celebrity' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28589151 BBC News 2017-06-05 2014-08-03 September - 1928 Scania truck (sunk 1936) located in Fryken, Sweden. November - Commerce raider CSS Alabama (sunk off Cherbourg peninsula in 1864) is found by the French Navy.http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cap.info/alabama.htm Alabama CERES 2005 2011-01-11 Turkana Boy is found in Kenya by team led by Richard Leakey. Events April - Jorvik Viking Centre opens in York, England.Looking back over 30 years of the Jorvik Viking Centre http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11111140.Looking_back_over_30_years_of_the_Jorvik_Viking_Centre/ York Press 28 March 2014 5 June 2017 en Deaths February 28: Taha Baqir, Iraqi archaeologist (born 1912) April 5: Giuseppe Tucci, Italian Orientalist (born 1894) References Archaeology Category:1980s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year