1996 in archaeology

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The year 1996 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

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).

Publications

Matthew Johnson - An Archaeology of Capitalism (Blackwell).
Rita P. Wright (ed.) - Gender and Archaeology (University of Pennsylvania Press).
First issue of e-journal Internet Archaeology.

Finds

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.
Herxheim archaeological site, a Neolithic Linear Pottery culture ritual center and mass grave at Herxheim in southwest Germany.

Miscellaneous

Yale University Bonampak Documentation Project begins at Maya site of Bonampak.

Deaths

January 17- William Lamplough, British archaeologist (b. 1914).
March 18 - Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist (b. 1910).
September 23 - Stuart Piggott, British archaeologist (b. 1910).
December 9 - Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913).