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1982 in archaeology
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1982 archaeology science
The year 1982 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Events
Archaeological Museum of Olympia opens in Greece.
Eindhoven Museum founded as an archaeological open-air museum in the Netherlands.
Excavations
October 11 - Hull of Tudor navy ship Mary Rose raised from the Solent.BBC On This Day Mary Rose rises after 437 years 11 October 1982 https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/11/newsid_2531000/2531561.stm 15 May 2017
The Chaco Project ends at Chaco Canyon (begun 1971).
Finds
March - Wreck of Swift 1763 located in Puerto Deseado on the Atlantic coast of Patagonia.Dolores Elkin Archaeological research and heritage management of a British shipwreck in Argentina - the legacy of HMS Swift (1770) Post-Medieval Archaeology 56 2022 3 225–48 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00794236.2022.2120718 10.1080/00794236.2022.2120718 2024-01-17 subscription
May 12 - Coppergate Helmet found in York, England.The York Helmet https://www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/collections/collections-highlights/the-york-helmet/ Yorkshire Museum York 15 May 2017
NASA's Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TIMS) detects over 200 miles of a precolumbian (900 CE or 1000 CE) road system in Chaco Canyon, as well as walls, buildings and agricultural fields.Trombold Charles D. Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World 1991 Cambridge University Press 9780521383370 7 https://books.google.com/books?id=ll3ZtbPl4VsC en
Uluburun shipwreck discovered.
Publications
A. F. Harding (ed.) - Climatic Change in Later Prehistory 0-85224-425-8
Richard Hodges - Dark Age Economics: the Origins of Towns and Trade, A.D. 600-1000 0-7156-1531-9
Roger Moorey - A Century of Biblical Archaeology 0-7188-2825-9
Births
Deaths
September 18 - Pei Wenzhong, founding father of Chinese anthropology, buried at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China (b. 1904).Pei, Wenzhong (1904-1982) - People and organisations http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1326665?c=people Trove 15 May 2017 en
October - Michael J. O'Kelly, Irish archaeologist (b. 1915).O'Kelly Michael J. O'Kelly Claire Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory 6 April 1989 Cambridge University Press xi 9780521336871 en
References
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