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Overview of the events of 1976 in archaeology
The year 1976 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Excavations [ edit ]
The Chaco Project (National Park Service and University of New Mexico) excavates fourteen rooms at Pueblo Alto from 1976 to 1978.
Hwangnyongsa , a large-scale Buddhist temple of the Korean Three Kingdoms state of Silla dating to AD 553 (excavations continue until 1983 ).
Excavations at Tell Brak , Syria , are begun by a team from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London (continue until 1981).
Excavations at Tell el-'Oueili in Iraq are begun under the direction of Jean-Louis Huot (continue until 1989).
Excavations in the Karakum Desert by Viktor Sarianidi uncover the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex .
Excavations at Mezhirich , Ukraine , resume, by N. L. Korniets and M. I. Gladkih (continue to 1981).
Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles in Orkney first excavated by Ronald Simison.[1]
Excavation at Twann Bahnhof neolithic pile dwelling site in Switzerland (begun 1974 ) concludes.
Chogha Bonut discovered in Iran and excavation begins.
Watch Hill Castle in Greater Manchester, England, partially excavated by the North Cheshire Archaeology Group under the direction of Barry Johnson[2]
Rescue excavation at Updown early medieval cemetery in Kent, England, led by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes uncovered 36 graves.[3]
Publications [ edit ]
The Landscape of Towns by Michael Aston and James Bond.
La Résistance africaine à la Romanisation by Marcel Bénabou .
The Stone Circles of the British Isles by Aubrey Burl .
The Mycenaean World by John Chadwick .
Prehistoric Maori Fortifications by Aileen Fox .[4]
"The integration of historical and archaeological data concerning an historic wreck site, the Kennemerland ", by Keith Muckelroy , World Archaeology 7 .3 pp 280–289.
Farming in the Iron Age by Peter J Reynolds .
Industrial Archeology: A New Look at the American Heritage by Theodore Anton Sande.[5]
References [ edit ]
^ "South Ronaldsay, Isbister" . Canmore . Retrieved 6 June 2017 .
^ Brown, Keri; Johnson, Barry (1985). "Watch Hill, Bowden" (PDF) . Greater Manchester Archaeological Journal . 1 : 35–38.
^ Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick (1976). "Interim Report by Mrs. S. C. Hawkes, MA., F.SA., on the Excavations at Eastry" . Archaeologia Cantiana . 92 : 247–248.
^ Quinnell, Henrietta (2009). "Fox , Aileen Mary, Lady Fox (1907–2005)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/96247 . Retrieved 21 November 2017 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Sande, Theodore Anton (1978). Industrial Archeology: A New Look at the American Heritage . Brattleboro, Vermont. ISBN 9780140049718 . OCLC 3770723 . {{cite book }}
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^ "Mortimer Wheeler" . Britannica.com . Retrieved 27 May 2017 .
^ "Portrait of Neil Merton Judd" . Smithsonian Institution Archives . Retrieved 5 June 2017 .