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The
year 1996 in
archaeology
involved some significant events.
Explorations
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Preliminary survey of
Buckton Castle
in the north west of England.
Excavations
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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
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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
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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
.
The
Keltenfürst
(Celtic prince) of Glauberg
in Germany, a life-size
sandstone
statue
of a warrior dating from the 5th century BCE.
[1]
Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription
in Israel.
Lod Mosaic
in Israel.
Croatian Apoxyomenos
off the Croatian islet of
Vele Orjule
.
Hermes of Messene
in
Messene
,
Greece
.
Ōfune Site
, one of the
Jōmon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidō
, Japan.
"
Great Dover Street woman
" from
Roman Britain
in London.
[2]
Polychrome wall paintings (dated to 1090) at church of St Mary the Virgin in the deserted village of
Houghton on the Hill, Norfolk
, England.
[3]
Awards
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Events
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Yale University
Bonampak Documentation Project
begins at
Maya
site of
Bonampak
.
November 2:
Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum
opens in Japan.
Births
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Deaths
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January 17-
William Lamplough
,
British
archaeologist
(b.
1914
).
March 18 -
Jacquetta Hawkes
,
British
archaeologist
(b.
1910
).
[4]
September 23 -
Stuart Piggott
, British archaeologist (b. 1910).
[5]
November 14 -
Martyn Jope
, British archaeologist and biochemist (b.
1915
).
December 9 -
Mary Leakey
, British archaeologist and
anthropologist
(b.
1913
).
References
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^
Bosinski, F.-M.; Herrmann, F.-R. (2000). "Zu den frühkeltischen Statuen vom Glauberg".
Ber. Komm. Arch. Landesforsch. Hessen
. 5, 1998/99: 41–48.
^
"Archaeologists May Have Found Woman Gladiator's Grave"
.
The New York Times
. 2000-09-13
. Retrieved
2021-09-02
.
^
"The Wall Paintings"
. St Mary's Church
. Retrieved
2021-04-04
.
^
"Obituary: Jacquetta Hawkes"
.
The Independent
. 20 March 1996. Archived from
the original
on 2022-05-01
. Retrieved
30 May
2017
.
^
"Obituary: Professor Stuart Piggott"
.
The Independent
. 27 September 1996. Archived from
the original
on 2022-05-01
. Retrieved
30 May
2017
.
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