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1962 in archaeology
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1962 archaeology science
The year 1962 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
Ian Graham makes first map of Maya site of El Mirador.
Historic American Buildings Survey records Johnson's Mill Bridge, a wooden covered bridge over Chickie's Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Excavations
Little Brickhill excavations 1962–1964 in Buckinghamshire, England.
Ongoing excavations at Aphrodisias in Anatolia begun by Kenan Erim under the aegis of New York University.
Excavation of Tel Arad by Yohanan Aharoni (continues until 1967).
Publications
Lewis R. Binford - Archaeology as Anthropology.
Peter H. Sawyer - The Age of the Vikings
Finds
January 15 - The Derveni papyrus, which dates to 340 BCE, making it the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, is discovered at a grave site in Macedonia (Greece).
September 6 - Blackfriars Ship I discovered by Peter Marsden in London.
October 8 - Bremen cog discovered in the Weser.Gordon Stewart A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks 2015 ForeEdge from University Press of New England 9781611687545 93 https://books.google.com/books?id=cznpBwAAQBAJ en
Neolithic remains at Jiahu discovered by Zhu Zhi.
First evidence for human occupation of Australia during the last glacial period discovered at Kenniff Cave, Queensland.
Events
March - First Conference of Western Archaeologists on Problems of Point Typology at Idaho State College Museum.
Births
Nikolai Grube, German Mayan epigrapher
Li Feng, Chinese American sinologist
Deaths
William Duncan Strong, American archaeologist (born 1899)
References
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