1981 in archaeology

none 1981 archaeology science The year 1981 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations June Owen Beattie of the University of Alberta begins the 1845–48 Franklin Expedition Forensic Anthropology Project (FEFAP) on King William Island to trace Franklin's lost expedition. Start of archaeological survey seeking Beothuk sites on the northeast coast of Newfoundland which locates that at Boyd's Cove.The Boyd's Cove Beothuk Site https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/aboriginal/beothuk-boyds-cove.php Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador 1999 2021-02-19 2020-09-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20200926203659/https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/aboriginal/beothuk-boyds-cove.php dead Late ice age tools found in inland Tasmania. Location of the wreck of Portuguese carrack St Anthony in 1527 on The Lizard, Cornwall, England, is identified.http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/ACHWS_annual_report_2005.pdf Advisory Committee on Historic Wrecks Report for 2005 2006-09-01 2007-01-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20070114115741/http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/ACHWS_annual_report_2005.pdf dead Full photographic survey of the wreck of the Breadalbane in the Northwest Passage. Excavations September - Excavation of the Trinchera Dolina at the archaeological site of Atapuerca in northern Spain begins. Ain Ghazal is discovered during road construction outside Amman, Jordan. Excavation of Etruscan (or Greek) shipwreck of 600 BCE off Isola del Giglio, Italy, directed by Mensun Bound, begins. Publications David Burgess-Wise - Automobile Archaeology (Cambridge, England: Patrick Stephens Ltd). Derek Roe - The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul). Finds Ceremonial decorated bronze Celtic Agris Helmet found in a cave near Agris in southwestern France. Wreck of RMS Republic (1903) located off Nantucket by Captain Martin Bayerle.Pickford Nigel Lost Treasure Ships of the Twentieth Century https://archive.org/details/losttreasureship0000pick registration Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society 1999 0-7922-7472-5http://www.rms-republic.com/index1.html Treasure of the RMS Republic MVSHQ, Inc. New York 2009 2012-03-22 2012-04-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20120414204330/http://www.rms-republic.com/index1.html dead Wreck of Formidable 1898 located off the south west coast of England.HMS Formidable [+1915] Wrecksite https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?405 2020-05-15 2021-02-23 Undley bracteate found near Lakenheath in eastern England. Gold bar found in Mexico City, subsequently confirmed as made of material appropriated during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and presumably abandoned by the Spanish at the time of La Noche Triste in 1520.Mexico City gold was Aztec loot Spanish abandoned as they fled in 1520, tests show https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/10/mexico-city-gold-aztec-treasure-spanish-conquistadors Reuters The Guardian London 2020-01-10 2020-01-12 Events June 12 - Film Raiders of the Lost Ark, featuring fictional 1930s archaeologist Indiana Jones, is released.'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark': 1981 review http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/indiana-jones-raiders-lost-ark-1981-review-article-1.2565387 NY Daily News 15 March 2016 5 June 2017 en Colin Renfrew is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge. Riace bronzes are put on show in Italy for the first time since their discovery in 1972.The Riace bronzes- 43 years ago, the bronze warriors emerged from the sea https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/21/41400-2/ The Vintage News 30 December 2017 21 May 2016 Births Fadel al-Utol, Palestinian archaeologistImbert Louis 2022-11-18 'Gaza is a man who cries and doesn't want to say so': The enclave from North to South, a crossing between sea and wall https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2022/11/18/gaza-is-a-man-who-cries-and-doesn-t-want-to-say-so-the-enclave-from-north-to-south-a-crossing-between-sea-and-wall_6004806_117.html 2025-02-24 en References Archaeology Category:1980s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year