1970 in archaeology

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Explorations

Historic American Engineering Record surveys the original main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Excavations

Joint British Museum, Harvard University and University of Cambridge project begins at Maya site of Lubaantun under leadership of Norman Hammond.
Five-year project at Altun Ha, led by Dr. David Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum, ends.
Retrieval of artefacts from wreck of Batavia off Western Australia begins.
Joint Archaeological Survey of India and University of Cambridge excavations at Malvan in Gujarat.

Publications

P. V. Glob - Hojfolket: Bronzealderens mennesker bevaret i 3000 år (The Mound People: Danish bronze-age man preserved).

Finds

First Botorrita plaque.
Sweet Track discovered by John Sweet in the Somerset Levels.
Blackfriars Ships III and IV discovered by Peter Marsden in London.
Buckquoy spindle-whorl, dating from the Early Middle Ages, probably the 8th century, excavated in Buckquoy, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland; notable because of its Ogham inscription.

Miscellaneous

12 July - Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados after a 57-day voyage from Morocco.
Butser Ancient Farm set up as an experimental archaeology site by the Council for British Archaeology.

See also

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