1985 in archaeology

none 1985 archaeology science The year 1985 in archaeology involved some significant events. Excavations April - Engine of SS Xantho (sunk 1872) recovered off Western Australia.SS Xantho - Western Australian Museum http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/broadhurst/ss-xantho Western Australian Museum 24 November 2017 en June 21 - 1928 Scania truck (sunk 1936) recovered from Fryken in Sweden. September - British Vickers Wellington IA medium bomber N2980 (crashed 1940) recovered from Loch Ness in Scotland. Explorations Sagalassos (Turkey) surveyed. Finds July 20 - The main shipwreck site of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha (which sank in 1622) is found 40 mi km off the coast of Key West, Florida by treasure hunters who soon begin to raise $400 million in coins and silver. September 1 - The shipwreck of the RMS Titanic (1912) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (Ifremer) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.September 2, 1985: Hey, Everyone, We Found the Titanic Randy Alfred https://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0902 2008-02-09 2011-11-03 WiredHow We Found the Titanic Robert D. Ballard National Geographic December 1985 168 6 696–718 October 13 - A hoard of coins of the Durotriges tribe is found in the rampart of Castle Rings, Wiltshire, England, an Iron Age hill fort, by a metal detectorist. Autumn - Rogozen Treasure: In the village of Rogozen, Vratsa Province, Bulgaria, tractor driver Ivan Dimitrov discovers 65 silver vessels in his garden. In 1986 archaeologists will discover a second hoard consisting of 100 vessels near the spot. Archaeologists date the treasure to the 5th-4th centuries BCE. Cosquer Cave found on the Mediterranean coast of France by diver Henri Cosquer; surviving cave paintings include Gravettian hand stencils and Solutrean animal paintings including a great auk, the earliest known depiction of a seabird.Jean Clottes Jean Courtin La grotte Cosquer Seuil 1994 2-02-019820-7 French Wrecks of three Spanish Armada ships driven ashore in Autumn 1588, La Lavia, La Juliana, and Santa Maria de Vison, found at Streedagh Strand, north of Rosses Point on the west coast of Ireland.http://www.sligoheritage.com/ArchSpanishArmada.htm The Spanish Armada in Sligo 2012-11-21 La Lavia, La Juliana and the Santa Maria de Vison: three Spanish Armada transports lost off Streedagh Strand, Co Sligo: an interim report 10.1111/j.1095-9270.1999.tb00836.x 28 3 International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 265–276 1999 Birch Steven McElvogue D. M. 1999IJNAr..28..265B Shipwreck of Greek merchant ship of about 400 BCE found off Ma'agan Michael.The Shipwreck at Ma'agan Mikhael (ca. 400 BC.) http://www.samaina.edu.gr/research_ships_MM_en.html ΣΑΜΑΙΝΑ 2011-08-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20120330173343/http://www.samaina.edu.gr/research_ships_MM_en.html 2012-03-30 dead Scar boat burial, Orkney.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/dig_reports_01.shtml Viking Dig Reports BBC 2011-11-03 The Middleham Jewel, a 15th-century pendant, found on a pathway at Middleham Castle in Yorkshire (England).Magic, Medicine and the Middleham Jewel http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/medieval-part-2/1780615/ www.english-heritage.org.uk 5 June 2017 The oldest known representation of a cannon, a stone relief sculpture dated 1128, is discovered carved in the walls of Cave 149 of the Dazu Rock Carvings in Dazu, Chongqing, China.Haw Stephen G. Stephen G. Haw The Mongol Empire: the first 'gunpowder empire'? Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society July 2013 23 3 441–469 10.1017/S1356186313000369 162200994 Discovery of a Roman amphitheatre at Guildhall, London.London's Roman Amphitheatre - Guildhall Galleries - City of London https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visit-the-city/attractions/guildhall-galleries/Pages/londons-roman-amphitheatre.aspx www.cityoflondon.gov.uk 18 June 2017 2 July 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170702162839/https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visit-the-city/attractions/guildhall-galleries/Pages/londons-roman-amphitheatre.aspx dead Milecastle 4 of Hadrian's Wall located in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.David J. Breeze Handbook to the Roman Wall 14th rev. 2006 Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne 0-901082-65-1 150–151 Publications Theresa A. Singleton (ed.) - The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life. Events Ruins of Nan Madol in Micronesia declared a protected historic landmark. Deaths April 11: Olga Tufnell, English archaeologist of the Near East (born 1905) April 18: Gertrude Caton Thompson, English archaeologist of Africa (born 1888) December 5: A. Ledyard Smith, American archaeologist of the Americas (born 1901) December 18: Theresa Goell, American archaeologist of the Near East (born 1901) References Archaeology Category:1980s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year