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1961 in archaeology

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List of years in archaeology

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1961

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The year 1961 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations[edit]

The site of Ai-Khanoum is located.

Excavations[edit]

April 24 - Swedish warship Vasa, sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is recovered from Stockholm harbor.
November - Start of one-year excavation of MalikbyIranian archaeologists.
First excavations at Anshan in Iran by Fereidoon Tavallali.
Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad begin excavation of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux MeadowsinNewfoundland, first archaeologically confirmed evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.
INAH project dredges artifacts from the Sacred CenoteatChichen Itza.
Start of excavations at ÇatalhöyükbyJames Mellaart.
First underwater archaeologyatAlexandria carried out by Kamal Abu el-Saadat.
Re-excavation of the causewayed enclosureatKnap HillinWiltshire, England, by Graham Connah.^[1]
The first season of excavations at Degannwy Castle in Wales; the excavation is led by Leslie Alcock and concludes in 1966.^[2]
The first season of excavations at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Worthy Park in Hampshire; the excavation is led by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes and concludes in 1962.^[3]

Publications[edit]

M. J. Aitken - Physics and Archaeology.
Glyn Daniel - The Idea of Prehistory.
Alan Gardiner - Egypt of the Pharaohs.^[4]
George E. Mylonas - Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries

Finds[edit]

Mortuary Temple of Thutmose III, Deir el-Bahari, Egypt.
Wreck of ship off Ceylon carrying silver rupees minted by Aurangzeb.^[5]

Events[edit]

January 5 - Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti signs a confession in the United States consulateinRome stating that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chemical tests performed in 1960 had already proven that the statues were forgeries.^[6]
October 6–8 - 'The Iron Age in Northern Britain' conference held in Edinburgh, organised by the Council for British Archaeology^[7]

Births[edit]

Ken Dark, English Roman archaeologist

Deaths[edit]

September 3 - Fay-Cooper Cole, American anthropologist (born 1881)

References[edit]

^ Connah, Graham; Smith, I. F. (1965). "Excavations at Knap Hill, Alton Priors". Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. 60: 1–23.

^ Alcock, Leslie (1967). "Excavations at Degannwy Castle, Caernarvonshire, 1961–6". Archaeological Journal. 124: 190–201. doi:10.1080/00665983.1967.11078309. ISSN 0066-5983.

^ Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick (2003). The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Worthy Park, Kingsworthy, near Winchester, Hampshire. Guy Grainger, J. Bayley, Anne Dodd, Edward Biddulph. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology. ISBN 0-947816-60-7. OCLC 52920905.

^ Egypt of the Pharaohs: an introduction. 1961. OCLC 300350.

^ "Taj Mahal Sunken Treasure 1702". Cannon Beach Treasure Co. Retrieved 2022-01-01.

^ "The history of fraud". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 4 June 2017.

^ Rivet, A. L. F. (1962). "The Iron Age in Northern Britain". Antiquity. 36 (141): 24–31. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00029525. ISSN 0003-598X. S2CID 163700443.

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