1958 in archaeology

none 1958 archaeology science The year 1958 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison. Anil de Silva plans an all-woman expedition to China (at this time closed to Western visitors) for herself, Romila Thapar and photographer Dominique Darbois to study the cave paintings in Dunhuang and the Maijishan Grottoes in Gansu province.Mel Neloufer De Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka https://books.google.com/books?id=h0f_D1qiXQgC&pg=PA134 2001 Rowman & Littlefield 978-0-7425-1807-0 109–10 Excavations Maya site of Dzibilchaltun, National Geographic Society project under E. Wyllys Andrews IV. Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios, Peabody Museum project under A. Ledyard Smith and Gordon Willey (continues to 1963). Excavation project at Sardis by Harvard University and Cornell University begins. Excavation at Great Zimbabwe under Roger Summers. Excavations at Adlun in Southern Lebanon under Dorothy Garrod begin (continue to 1963). Excavations at Vaishali in Bihar begin (continue to 1962). Excavations at Brunswick Town, North Carolina under Stanley South begin (continue to 1968).Ward H. Trawick Davis R. P. Stephen Time Before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina 1999 UNC Press Books 9780807847800 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=0vVOdOSIv_cC en Excavations at the Roman fort of Petuaria near Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, begin (continue to 1962). Excavations and re-erection of trilithon at Stonehenge in England. Finds February 7: Discovery of "Deep Skull" in Niah Caves in Sarawak by Barbara and Tom Harrisson, at around 40,000 years BP the oldest known evidence of Homo sapiens in southeast Asia.Reynolds Tim etal Kaifu Yousuke etal Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia 2015 Texas A&M University Press Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Climates, Landscapes and Human Activities in Northern Borneo from Excavations in the Niah Caves April 2: Accidental discovery of the Caernarfon Mithraeum in Wales. July 4: St Ninian's Isle Treasure in Shetland by Douglas Coutts. August 18: Accidental discovery of Brymbo Man (c.2000 BCE) in Wales. October 26: Accidental discovery of wreckage from the Australian National Airways' 1931 Avro Ten Southern Cloud disappearance in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales.29 October 1958 The Southern Cloud mystery solved after 27 years https://www.smh.com.au/national/from-the-archives-1958-the-southern-cloud-mystery-solved-after-27-years-20191025-p5344f.html 2024-01-11 The Age Melbourne Workshop of Phidias at Olympia. Çatalhöyük. Bajo de la Campana Phoenician shipwreck site on the Mediterranean coast of Spain first identified by divers.Polzer Mark E. 2009 The Iron Age Phoenician shipwreck excavation at Bajo de la Campana, Spain: preliminary report from the field https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236667071 Between Continents: Twelfth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology 12 27–36 Publications M. W. Beresford and J. K. S. St Joseph - Medieval England : an aerial survey. John Chadwick - The Decipherment of Linear B. Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips - Method and Theory in American Archaeology. Events December 12–14: 'Problems relating to the Iron Age in Southern Britain' conference held in Oxford, organised by the Council for British Archaeology.Frere Sheppard 1959 The Iron Age in Southern Britain https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003598X00027472/type/journal_article Antiquity en 33 131 183–188 10.1017/S0003598X00027472 163832727 0003-598X subscription Births May 18: David Mattingly, English archaeologist and historian of the Roman world October 11: Pavel Kuznetsov, Russian archaeologist, paleogeneticist and historian of the Bronze Age Deaths August 17: John Marshall, English Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India (born 1876)Sir John Hubert Marshall (Biographical details) http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=138912 British Museum 24 May 2017 References Archaeology Category:1950s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year