1973 in archaeology

none 1973 archaeology science The year 1973 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations 16th century subterranean mills are located in caves in Col des Roches, Switzerland.M. Caubergs Les moulins souterrains du Col-des-Roches Bulletin d'information trimestriel Groupe de recherches souterraines en milieu artificiel 26 1997 3–10 Excavations Meadowcroft Rock Shelter under James M. Adovasio. Heavenly Horse Tomb (Cheonmachong), a mounded tomb of Silla (c. AD 300/400-668) royalty in Gyeongju, Korea. Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski and her colleagues have the opportunity to work on the previously undisturbed peristyle garden of the House of G. Polybius in Pompeii. Somerset Levels Project begins. Finds Vindolanda tablets discovered by Robin Birley near Hadrian's Wall, England.Archaeologists hope to discover more Roman writing tablets at Vindolanda Roman Fort Culture24 http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art477316-Archaeologists-hope-to-discover-more-Roman-writing-tablets-at-Vindolanda-Roman-Fort www.culture24.org.uk 5 June 2017 Fossils of a human premolar and 40 mammalian species excavated at Locality 4 in Zhoukoudian, China. St Peter's Church, Dunwich, discovered submerged off the Suffolk coast of England by Stuart Bacon. A large Song dynasty trade ship of c.1277 CE is dredged up from the waters near the southern coast of China with 12 compartments in its hull. It confirms the descriptions of bulkheaded hull compartments for junks in Zhu Yu's Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119. Updown early medieval cemetery in Kent, England, discovered through the use of aerial photography.St Joseph J.K. 1974 Air reconnaissance : recent results, 35 Antiquity en 48 191 213–215 10.1017/S0003598X00057999 163526972 free Hawkes Sonia Chadwick 1976 Interim Report by Mrs. S. C. Hawkes, MA., F.SA., on the Excavations at Eastry https://kentarchaeology.org.uk/node/11816 Archaeologia Cantiana English 92 247–248 2023-04-10 2023-03-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20230410063714/https://kentarchaeology.org.uk/arch-cant/vol/92/investigations-and-excavations-during-year-i-reports-excavations-supported-society dead Aphrodite Hypolympidia at Dion, Pieria in Greece. Events May–September - Tomb of Casimir IV Jagiellon in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, opened for conservation.Marchant Jo The Shadow King 2013 978-0-306-82134-9 Da Capo Press July 18 - Protection of Wrecks Act passed in the United Kingdom.https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/hpg/has/protectedwrecks/ Protected Wrecks Historic England 5 June 2017 The first site designated under it is the Cattewater Wreck at Plymouth on September 5. The first Mesa Redonda de Palenque conference in Palenque starts major improvements in understanding Maya hieroglyphics and the iconography of Maya civilization. Confirmation that a site in Iran is the lost city of Anshan.1973-04-07 The Lost City of Anshan Science News 103 14 220–221 10.2307/3957995 0036-8423 3957995 Tucson Garbage Project initiated by William Rathje.https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/05/books/we-are-what-we-throw-away.html We Are What We Throw Away The New York Times 5 July 1992 5 June 2017 Rybczynski Witold Publications Archaeology by Experiment John Coles 1973 London Hutchinson University Library 0-09-116870-8 Hawkes Christopher Christopher Hawkes Hawkes Sonia Greeks, Celts, and Romans: studies in venture and resistance London Dent 0460078429 Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn Renfrew Colin Before Civilisation: the Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe 1973 London Cape 0-224-00790-4 Jane M. Renfrew Palaeoethnobotany: the prehistoric food plants of the Near East and Europe 1973 London Methuen 0-416-16510-9 Births May 19 - Alice Roberts, English evolutionary biologist, biological anthropologist and science and archaeology populariser Deaths References Archaeology Category:1970s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year