1962 in archaeology

The year 1962 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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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.

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.[1]
• 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

1. Gordon, Stewart (2015). A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks. ForeEdge from University Press of New England. p. 93. ISBN 9781611687545.