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1974 in archaeology

The year 1974 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations[edit]

• January 19–20: New Zealand Railways K class (1877) steam locomotive K 88 Washington is recovered from the Branxholme locomotive dump in the Ōreti River.
• Project at Lamanai, Belize begins, directed by David M. Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum (continues through 1988).
• Excavation at Twann Bahnhof neolithic pile dwelling site in Switzerland begins (continues through 1976).
• Excavation of Panlongcheng Erligang culture site in China begins.
• Excavation conducted in Azokh Cave finding material from the Guruchay culture in Azerbaijan.^[1]

Finds[edit]

• 26 February: 'Mungo Man', the skeleton of an individual subsequently determined to be around 40,000 years BP, discovered near Mungo LakeinNew South WalesbyAustralian National University geomorphologist Dr. Jim Bowler.
• 29 March: Terracotta ArmyofQin Shi Huang discovered at Xi'an, China.^[2]
• 4 April: High-status stone cist burial at Songguk-ri, Korea, containing Liaoning-style bronze dagger, greenstone ornaments and other prestige artifacts.
• 24 November: 'Lucy', the skeleton of a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, discovered at Hadar, Ethiopia, in the Afar Depression.^[3]
• Roman villa "B" at Oplontis in Italy discovered.
• East Han Dynasty statue of Li Bing discovered at Dujiangyan Irrigation System.

Publications[edit]

• Michael Aston and Trevor Rowley - Landscape Archaeology: an introduction to fieldwork techniques on post-Roman landscapes.
• Philip A. Rahtz (ed) - Rescue Archaeology.

Miscellaneous[edit]

• Glyn Daniel is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.

Births[edit]

• October 28 - Andrew Birley, British archaeologist.^[4]

Deaths[edit]

• May 18 - Ernest Nash, German-born student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography (born 1898).^[5]
• December 21 - Alan Sorrell, English archaeological illustrator (born 1904).

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