1981 in archaeology

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The year 1981 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

June: Owen Beattie of the University of Alberta begins the 1845–48 Franklin Expedition Forensic Anthropology Project (FEFAP) on King William Island to trace Franklin's lost expedition.
Full photographic survey of the wreck of the Breadalbane in the Northwest Passage.

Excavations

Ain Ghazal is discovered during road construction outside Amman, Jordan.

Publications

David Burgess-Wise - Automobile Archaeology (Cambridge, England: Patrick Stephens Ltd).
Derek Roe - The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).

Finds

Wreck of RMS Republic (1903) located off Nantucket by Captain Martin Bayerle.^[1]^[2]

Miscellaneous

Colin Renfrew is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
June 12 - Film Raiders of the Lost Ark, featuring fictional 1930s archaeologist Indiana Jones, is released.

Births

Deaths

References

↑ Pickford, Nigel (1999). Lost Treasure Ships of the Twentieth Century. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society. ISBN 0-7922-7472-5.
↑ "Treasure of the RMS Republic". New York: MVSHQ, Inc. 2009. Retrieved 2012-03-22.