1996 in archaeology

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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.
* A Bronze Age site, al-Moghraqa, was discovered by Moain Sadeq in Gaza Governorate, State of Palestine.[1]

## Excavations

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* July – excavations at Blakhiya Byzantine cemetery in Palestine take place under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of Gaza and the École Biblique.[2]
* 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.[3]
* 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.[4]
* Polychrome wall paintings (dated to 1090) at church of St Mary the Virgin in the deserted village of Houghton on the Hill, Norfolk, England.[5]

## 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).[6]
* September 23 - Stuart Piggott, British archaeologist (b. 1910).[7]
* 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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1. ^ Steel, Louise; Clarke, Joanne; Sadeq, Moain; Manley, Bill; McCarthy, Andrew; Munro, R. Neil (2004), "Gaza Research Project. Report on the 1999 and 2000 Seasons at al-Moghraqa", Levant, 36: 37, doi:10.1179/lev.2004.36.1.37
2. ^ Morhange, Christophe; Taha, Mohamed Hamdan; Humbert, Jean-Baptiste; Marriner, Nick (2005), "Human settlement and coastal change in Gaza since the Bronze Age", Méditerranée: Revue géographique des pays méditerranéens, 104: 75–78, doi:10.4000/mediterranee.2252
3. ^ Bosinski, F.-M.; Herrmann, F.-R. (2000). "Zu den frühkeltischen Statuen vom Glauberg". Ber. Komm. Arch. Landesforsch. Hessen. 5, 1998/99: 41–48.
4. ^ "Archaeologists May Have Found Woman Gladiator's Grave". The New York Times. 2000-09-13. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
5. ^ "The Wall Paintings". St Mary's Church. Retrieved 2021-04-04.
6. ^ "Obituary: Jacquetta Hawkes". The Independent. 20 March 1996. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
7. ^ "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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