1968 in archaeology

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The year 1968 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Explorations
2 Excavations
3 Publications
4 Finds
5 Awards
6 Miscellaneous
7 Births
8 Deaths

Explorations

Excavations

Anne Stine Ingstad and Helge Ingstad complete excavations of Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows.
Prof. Richard J. C. Atkinson undertakes work at Silbury, broadcast on BBC Television (continues to 1970).
Colin Renfrew begins excavations at Sitagroi, Greece (continues to 1970).

Publications

Sally R. and Lewis R. Binford (ed.) - New Perspectives in Archeology.
David L. Clarke - Analytical Archaeology.
Erich von Däniken - Erinnerungen an die Zukunft: Ungelöste Rätsel der Vergangenheit (Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past).

Finds

Archaeological prospection of Buvuma Island directed by the Tervuren Museum finds early use of pottery.

Awards

Miscellaneous

Project to move temples of Abu Simbel to prevent their inundation by the Aswan High Dam successfully completed
The Egyptian National Antiquities Service and the Getty Conservation Institute in Santa Monica, California started conservation project for tomb of Queen Nefertari.

Births

Deaths

December 18 - Dorothy Garrod, English Palaeolithic archaeologist of the Near East (b. 1892).