1996 in archaeology

The year 1996 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Explorations

• Preliminary survey of Buckton Castle in the north west of England.

Excavations

• Large-scale, wide-scope horizontal excavations begin at Daepyeong, a large Mumun Pottery Period settlement in Korea (continued until early 2000).
• Excavations near Bogazköy by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft begin (continued until 1999).
• Excavation of the Portuguese nau Nossa Senhora dos Mártires (1605–06) at the mouth of the Tagus begins (continued until 2001).
• First excavation of medieval drain at Paisley Abbey in Scotland.

Publications

• Matthew Johnson - An Archaeology of Capitalism (Blackwell).
• Denise Schmandt-Besserat - How Writing Came About (University of Texas Press).
• Rita P. Wright (ed.) - Gender and Archaeology (University of Pennsylvania Press).
• First issue of e-journal Internet Archaeology.

Finds

• July: Mass grave of victims of the Battle of Towton (1461) in England.
• July 28: Kennewick Man in the United States.
• August 4: Seaton Carew Wreck in England.
• November 21: Pirate flagship Queen Anne's Revenge (run aground 1718) in North Carolina.
• Herxheim archaeological site, a Neolithic Linear Pottery culture ritual center and mass grave at Herxheim in southwest Germany.
• Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription in Israel.
• Lod Mosaic in Israel.
• Croatian Apoxyomenos off the Croatian islet of Vele Orjule.
• Ōfune Site, one of the Jōmon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidō, Japan.

Events

• Yale University Bonampak Documentation Project begins at Maya site of Bonampak.
• November 2: Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum opens in Japan.

Deaths

• January 17- William Lamplough, British archaeologist (b. 1914).
• March 18 - Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist (b. 1910).[1]
• September 23 - Stuart Piggott, British archaeologist (b. 1910).[2]
• November 14 - Martyn Jope, British archaeologist and biochemist (b. 1915).
• December 9 - Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913).

References

1. "Obituary: Jacquetta Hawkes". The Independent. 20 March 1996. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
2. "Obituary: Professor Stuart Piggott". The Independent. 27 September 1996. Retrieved 30 May 2017.