1978 in archaeology

none 1978 archaeology science The year 1978 in archaeology involved some significant events. Excavations New excavations at Brahmagiri by Amalananda Ghosh. Excavations begin at Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site in Wales. New excavations begin at Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles on Holy Island, Anglesey, off the coast of Wales. Comprehensive excavations at Alepotrypa cave in Greece begin. Excavation of Proto-Elamite levels of Susa in Iran. Finds February 21 - The remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan. March - Pictish stone depicting a bearded figure at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Bactrian Gold hoard. A new Shapwick hoard of Roman copper coins in England. Cherchen Man in China. A fossilized partial human cranium is among hominid remains found in Apidima Cave in southern Greece; in 2019 it is announced as dating to more than 210,000 years BP, making it the earliest example of Homo sapiens outside Africa.Harvati, Katerina Röding, Carolin Bosman, Abel M. Karakostis, Fotios A. Grün, Rainer Stringer, Chris Karkanas, Panagiotis Thompson, Nicholas C. Koutoulidis, Vassilis Moulopoulos, Lia A. Gorgoulis, Vassilis G. Kouloukoussa, Mirsini Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia Nature 571 7766 500–504 10 July 2019 10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z 31292546 195873640 https://zenodo.org/record/6646855 10072/397334 free First discovery of European lion remains at Tiryns in Mycenaean Greece.The Last Wild Lions of Europe Katarina Zimmer https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/lions-europe/ Sapiens 2022-01-04 2022-01-05 Wreck of a Basque whaling galleon, probably the San Juan, off Saddle Island, Labrador. Publications Lewis R. Binford - Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology. Mounir Bouchenaki - Cités antiques d'Algérie. Kenneth Dover - Greek Homosexuality. Richard A. Gould (ed.) - Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology. Keith Muckelroy - Maritime Archaeology. Paleontologist Björn Kurtén's short novel Dance of the Tiger, dealing with the interaction between Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals, is published in Sweden as Den Svarta Tigern. Events Theban Mapping Project is established. September - Thousands march through Dublin to Wood Quay to protest against the building of civic offices on the Viking site.Wood Quay 1978-79 http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/wood-quay-197879-26786736.html Independent.ie 29 October 2011 5 June 2017 en Deaths August 19 - Sir Max Mallowan, English archaeologist (born 1904).Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) 122093 - National Trust Collections http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/122093 www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk 30 May 2017 en August 24 - Dame Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist of the Neolithic Fertile Crescent and college principal (born 1906). October 8 - Bertha Cody, Native American archaeologist (born 1907). November 8 - Terence Mitford, British archaeologist of the Near East (born 1905). References Archaeology Category:1970s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year