1961 in archaeology

List of years in archaeology (table)
… 1951 ^. 1952 ^. 1953 ^. 1954 ^. 1955 ^. 1956 ^. 1957 … 1958 1959 1960 -1961- 1962 1963 1964 … 1965 ^. 1966 ^. 1967 ^. 1968 ^. 1969 ^. 1970 ^. 1971 … In science: 1958 1959 1960 -1961- 1962 1963 1964
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The year 1961 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

April 24 - Work starts on salvage of the Swedish warship Vasa, sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, from Stockholm harbor.
November - Start of one-year excavation of Malik by Iranian archaeologists.
Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad begin excavation of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, first archaeologically confirmed evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.
INAH project dredges artifacts from the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza.
Start of excavations at Çatalhöyük by James Mellaart.
First underwater archaeology at Alexandria carried out by Kamal Abu el-Saadat.