1961 in archaeology

none 1961 archaeology science The year 1961 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations The site of Ai-Khanoum is located. Excavations April 24 - Swedish warship Vasa, sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is recovered from Stockholm harbor. November - Start of one-year excavation of Malik by Iranian archaeologists. First excavations at Anshan in Iran by Fereidoon Tavallali. Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad begin excavation of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, first archaeologically confirmed evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. INAH project dredges artifacts from the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza. Start of excavations at Çatalhöyük by James Mellaart. First underwater archaeology at Alexandria carried out by Kamal Abu el-Saadat. Re-excavation of the causewayed enclosure at Knap Hill in Wiltshire, England, by Graham Connah.Connah Graham Smith I. F. 1965 Excavations at Knap Hill, Alton Priors https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/138882#page/7/mode/1up Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 60 1–23 The first season of excavations at Degannwy Castle in Wales; the excavation is led by Leslie Alcock and concludes in 1966.Alcock Leslie 1967 Excavations at Degannwy Castle, Caernarvonshire, 1961–6 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00665983.1967.11078309 Archaeological Journal en 124 190–201 10.1080/00665983.1967.11078309 0066-5983 subscription The first season of excavations at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Worthy Park in Hampshire; the excavation is led by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes and concludes in 1962.Hawkes Sonia Chadwick The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Worthy Park, Kingsworthy, near Winchester, Hampshire 2003 Oxford University School of Archaeology Guy Grainger, J. Bayley, Anne Dodd, Edward Biddulph 0-947816-60-7 Oxford 52920905 Start of excavations at Tripontium in England by the Rugby Archaeological Society, continuing to 2006.Excavations and History https://www.rugbyarchaeology.org.uk/index.php/excavation rugbyarchaeology.org.uk 2019-01-05 Publications M. J. Aitken - Physics and Archaeology. Glyn Daniel - The Idea of Prehistory. Alan Gardiner - Egypt of the Pharaohs.Egypt of the Pharaohs: an introduction English 1961 300350 George E. Mylonas - Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries Finds Mortuary Temple of Thutmose III, Deir el-Bahari, Egypt. Wreck of ship off Ceylon carrying silver rupees minted by Aurangzeb.Taj Mahal Sunken Treasure 1702 https://cannonbeachtreasure.com/pages/taj-mahal-sunken-treasure Cannon Beach Treasure Co 2022-01-01 Events January 5 - Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti signs a confession in the United States consulate in Rome stating that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chemical tests performed in 1960 had already proven that the statues were forgeries.The history of fraud https://www.theguardian.com/btbroadbandsecurity/story/0,,1736129,00.html www.theguardian.com 4 June 2017 en October 6–8 - 'The Iron Age in Northern Britain' conference held in Edinburgh, organised by the Council for British ArchaeologyRivet A. L. F. 1962 The Iron Age in Northern Britain https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003598X00029525/type/journal_article Antiquity en 36 141 24–31 10.1017/S0003598X00029525 163700443 0003-598X subscription Births Ken Dark, English Roman archaeologist Deaths September 3 - Fay-Cooper Cole, American anthropologist (born 1881) References Archaeology Category:1960s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year