1960 in archaeology

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1780s ^. 1790s in archaeology ^. 1800
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Excavations

Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex, by Barry Cunliffe.
Floors excavated at the Una Vida great house, Chaco Canyon.
Cape Gelidonya shipwreck excavation, by Peter Throckmorton, George F. Bass and Frédéric Dumas, begins.

Publications

Glyn Daniel - The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France.

Finds

Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad find apparent Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
November 4 - OH 7, first fragments of Homo habilis, discovered by Jonathan Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Births

April 21 - Nicholas Thomas, Australian-born British archaeologist of Oceania
May 11 - Pál Sümegi, Hungarian geoarchaeologist
September 1 - Eric H. Cline, American Classical archaeologist
Timothy Taylor, English archaeologist

Deaths

October 6 - Karel Absolon, Czech archaeologist (b. 1877)
March 11 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (b. 1884)
February 20 - Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (b. 1880)

See also

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