1960 in archaeology

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1780s ^. 1790s in archaeology ^. 1800

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Excavations

• "Cave of Letters" at Nahal Hever in the Judaean Desert.
• Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex.[1]
• Floors excavated at the Una Vida great house, Chaco Canyon.
• Cape Gelidonya shipwreck excavation, by Peter Throckmorton, George F. Bass and Frédéric Dumas, begins.

Publications

• Glyn Daniel - The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France.[2]

Finds

• Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad find apparent Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
• Tomb of Princess Yongtai found in Qianling Mausoleum, China.
• November 4 - OH 7, first fragments of Homo habilis, discovered by Jonathan Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
• Azykh cave was discovered by Mammadali Huseynov in Azerbaijan.[3][4]

Events

• Chemical tests indicate that the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, are modern fakes.[5]

Births

• April 21 - Nicholas Thomas, Australian-born British archaeologist of Oceania
• May 11 - Pál Sümegi, Hungarian geoarchaeologist
• September 1 - Eric H. Cline, American Classical archaeologist
• Timothy Taylor, English archaeologist

Deaths

• February 20 - Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (b. 1880)[6]
• March 11 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (b. 1884)[7]
• May 13 - Antonios Keramopoulos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1870)
• October 6 - Karel Absolon, Czech archaeologist (b. 1877)

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1959 in archaeology
• 1961 in archaeology

References

1. "BBC - Digging in the 60s at Fishbourne Roman Palace". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
2. "The prehistoric chamber tombs of France : a geographical, morphological and chronological survey". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
3. BAXŞƏLİYEV, VƏLİ (2007). Azərbaycan arxeologiyası (PDF). Elm.
4. "Azykh Cave | OpenBuildings". 2017-12-23. Archived from the original on 2017-12-23. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
5. "The history of fraud". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
6. "Charles Leonard Woolley - Artefacts of Excavation". egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
7. "Roy Chapman Andrews". Britannica.com. Retrieved 27 May 2017.