1994 in archaeology

The year 1994 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

• National Institute of Anthropology and History excavations at Maya site of Chacchoben begin

Publications

• Alan K. Bowman – Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and its People (British Museum).
• Marc Bermann – Lukurmata: Household Archaeology in Prehispanic Bolivia (Princeton University Press).
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza – The History and Geography of Human Genes {Princeton University Press).
• Gillian Hutchinson – Medieval Ships and Shipping (Leicester University Press).
• Naomi F. Miller and Kathryn L. Gleason (ed.) – The Archaeology of Garden and Field (University of Pennsylvania Press).
• John Schofield and Alan Vince – Medieval Towns (Leicester University Press).

Finds

• Kafkania pebble.
• Gold coins and jewellery discovered at Salcombe Cannon Wreck site.
• Diver Colin Martin discovers the wreck of the Hanover (built 1757) off the coast of Cornwall.
• Sannai-Maruyama Ruins discovered at Aomori, northern Honshu, Japan (mainly of Jōmon period).
• 'Ardi', the fossilized skeletal remains of a female Ardipithecus ramidus, discovered at Aramis, Ethiopia, in the Afar Depression, the oldest known hominid fossil (4.4 million years old).
• Remains of Homo heidelbergensis found at Boxgrove Quarry.
• Late – Marine archaeologists led by Jean-Yves Empereur find remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt.^[1]
• December – Spotted horses and human hands, Pech Merle cave, Dordogne, France (painted c. 16000 BC).
• December – Wall painting with horses, rhinoceroses and aurochs, Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche Gorges, France (made c. 25,000–17,000 BC).

Other events

• 16 January – British archaeological television series Time Team first shown on Channel 4.
• 12 March – Kabul Museum building hit by rocket fire and destroyed.
• The British Library acquires the Kharosti scrolls, the oldest collection of Buddhist manuscripts in the world.

Births

Deaths

• 10 October – Richard J. C. Atkinson, British archaeologist and prehistorian (b. 1920).^[2]

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