1979 in archaeology

Overview of the events of 1979 in archaeology

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The year 1979 in archaeology involved some significant events.

## Explorations

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* Tillya Tepe surveyed by a Soviet-Afghan mission of archaeologists led by Victor Sarianidi.

## Excavations

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* Hengistbury Head by Barry Cunliffe (continues to 1984).

## Finds

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* July - Fossil hominid footprints found at Laetoli, Tanzania, by Mary Leakey.
* Wreck of SS Xantho found off Western Australia.[1]
* Wreck of HMS Stirling Castle (1679) found on the Goodwin Sands.
* Wreck of English ship Swan (1641) found off the west coast of Scotland.
* Wreck of French-built English ship HMS Invincible (1747) found in The Solent.
* Burial site related to the 1918 execution of the Romanov family at Yekaterinburg, by Alexander Avdonin.[2]
* Roman fort at Elginhaugh discovered by air-photography.
* Black rat bones from about the fifth century AD reported as found in York, the first pre-medieval record in England.[3]
* The prehistoric site of Isernia La Pineta discovered during the construction of a road link of Strada statale 85.

## Publications

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* Aubrey Burl \- Prehistoric Avebury.
* J. M. Coles and A. F. Harding - The Bronze Age in Europe: an introduction to the prehistory of Europe, c.2000-700 BC.
* Kenneth Hudson \- World Industrial Archaeology.
* A. L. F. Rivet and Colin Smith - The Place-names of Roman Britain.
* Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History series founded by David Brown, James Campbell, and Sonia Chadwick Hawkes.[4]

## Events

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* June 2 - Protesters opposed to the building of civic offices on the site of Viking excavations in Wood Quay, Dublin, occupy the area.

## Births

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* February 8 - Stuart Wilson, English archaeologist working in Wales

## Deaths

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* January 15 - Yang Zhongjian, father of Chinese vertebrate paleontology, buried at Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian, China (b. 1897)
* January 20 - Robert Wauchope, American archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1909)
* January 24 - Raissa Calza, Ukrainian-born archaeologist of Ancient Rome, previously ballet dancer (b. 1894)
* August 1 - Li Ji, Chinese archaeologist (b. 1896)[5]
* August 25 - Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Mexican archaeologist, discoverer of the tomb of K'inich Janaab' Pakal at Palenque (b. 1906)
* December 14 - Charles McBurney, American-born archaeologist working in Britain (b. 1914)

## References

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1. ^ "SS Xantho". Western Australian Museum. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
2. ^ Coble, Michael D. (2011-09-26). "The identification of the Romanovs". Investigative Genetics. 2 (1): 20. doi:10.1186/2041-2223-2-20. PMC 3205009. PMID 21943354.
3. ^ James Rackham, Antiquity 53:112.
4. ^ "Obituary: Sonia Chadwick Hawkes". The Independent. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
5. ^ "Li Chi". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 17 May 2017.

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