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Overview of the events of 1978 in archaeology
List of years in archaeology
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table
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+...
The
year 1978 in
archaeology
involved some significant events.
Excavations
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]
New excavations at
Brahmagiri
by Amalananda Ghosh.
Excavations begin at
Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site
in Wales.
New excavations begin at
Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles
on
Holy Island, Anglesey
, off the coast of Wales.
Comprehensive excavations at
Alepotrypa cave
in Greece begin.
Excavation of
Proto-Elamite
levels of
Susa
in Iran.
Finds
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]
February 21 - The remains of the
Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan
.
March -
Pictish stone
depicting a bearded figure at
Rhynie, Aberdeenshire
, Scotland.
Bactrian Gold
hoard.
A new
Shapwick hoard
of Roman copper coins in England.
Cherchen Man
in China.
A fossilized partial human cranium is among hominid remains found in
Apidima Cave
in southern
Greece
; in 2019 it is announced as dating to more than 210,000 years BP, making it the earliest example of
Homo sapiens
outside Africa.
[1]
First discovery of
European lion
remains at
Tiryns
in
Mycenaean Greece
.
[2]
Wreck of a
Basque whaling
galleon
, probably the
San Juan
, off
Saddle Island, Labrador
.
Publications
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edit
]
Lewis R. Binford
-
Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology
.
Mounir Bouchenaki -
Cités antiques d'Algérie
.
Kenneth Dover
-
Greek Homosexuality
.
Richard A. Gould (ed.) -
Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology
.
Keith Muckelroy
-
Maritime Archaeology
.
Paleontologist
Björn Kurtén
's short novel
Dance of the Tiger
, dealing with the interaction between
Cro-Magnons
and
Neanderthals
, is published in
Sweden
as
Den Svarta Tigern
.
Events
[
edit
]
Theban Mapping Project
is established.
September - Thousands march through
Dublin
to
Wood Quay
to protest against the building of civic offices on the
Viking
site.
[3]
Deaths
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]
August 19 - Sir
Max Mallowan
,
English
archaeologist
(born
1904
).
[4]
August 24 - Dame
Kathleen Kenyon
, English archaeologist of the Neolithic Fertile Crescent and college principal (born
1906
).
October 8 -
Bertha Cody
,
Native American
archaeologist (born
1907
).
November 8 -
Terence Mitford
, British archaeologist of the Near East (born
1905
).
References
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edit
]
^
Harvati, Katerina; Röding, Carolin; Bosman, Abel M.; Karakostis, Fotios A.; Grün, Rainer; Stringer, Chris; Karkanas, Panagiotis; Thompson, Nicholas C.; Koutoulidis, Vassilis; Moulopoulos, Lia A.; Gorgoulis, Vassilis G.; Kouloukoussa, Mirsini (10 July 2019).
"Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of
Homo sapiens
in Eurasia"
.
Nature
.
571
(7766): 500–504.
doi
:
10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z
.
PMID
31292546
.
S2CID
195873640
.
^
Zimmer, Katarina (2022-01-04).
"The Last Wild Lions of Europe"
.
Sapiens
. Retrieved
2022-01-05
.
^
"Wood Quay 1978-79"
.
Independent.ie
. Retrieved
5 June
2017
.
^
"Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) 122093 - National Trust Collections"
.
www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk
. Retrieved
30 May
2017
.
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