Overview of the events of 1960 in archaeology
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Excavations
- "Cave of Letters" at Nahal Hever in the Judaean Desert.
- Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex.
- Floors excavated at the Una Vida great house, Chaco Canyon.
- Cape Gelidonya shipwreck excavation, by Peter Throckmorton, George F. Bass and Frédéric Dumas, begins.
- August: Excavations at Castle Tower, Penmaen, in Wales begin, led by Leslie Alcock of University College Cardiff. Further small-scale work is undertaken at the site the following year and the results published in 1966.
Publications
- Glyn Daniel - The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France.
Finds
- Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad find apparent Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
- Tomb of Princess Yongtai found in Qianling Mausoleum, China.
- Azykh Cave is discovered by Mammadali Huseynov in Azerbaijan.
- November 4 - OH 7, first fragments of Homo habilis, discovered by Jonathan Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
- Statue of Athena Demegorusa in Nicopolis, western Greece.
Events
- Chemical tests indicate that the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, are modern fakes.
Births
- April 21 - Nicholas Thomas, Australian-born British archaeologist of Oceania
- May 11 - Pál Sümegi, Hungarian geoarchaeologist
- September 1 - Eric H. Cline, American Classical archaeologist
- Timothy Taylor, English archaeologist
Deaths
- February 20 - Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (b. 1880)
- March 11 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (b. 1884)
- May 13 - Antonios Keramopoulos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1870)
- October 6 - Karel Absolon, Czech archaeologist (b. 1877)
See also
References
- "BBC - Digging in the 60s at Fishbourne Roman Palace". news.bbc.co.uk. 27 August 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- Alcock, Leslie; Talbot, E. J. (1966). "Castle Tower, Penmaen: A Norman Ring-work in Glamorgan". The Antiquaries Journal. 46 (2): 179. doi:10.1017/S0003581500053245. ISSN 0003-5815. S2CID 161300451.
- The prehistoric chamber tombs of France : a geographical, morphological and chronological survey. Thames and Hudson. 1960. Retrieved 4 June 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- BAXŞƏLİYEV, VƏLİ (2007). Azərbaycan arxeologiyası (PDF). Elm. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-01-11. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
- "Azykh Cave | OpenBuildings". 2017-12-23. Archived from the original on 2017-12-23. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
- "The history of fraud". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
- "Charles Leonard Woolley - Artefacts of Excavation". egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- "Roy Chapman Andrews". Britannica.com. Retrieved 27 May 2017.