1960 in archaeology explained

1780s ^. 1790s in archaeology ^. 1800
Other events: 1790s ^. Archaeology timeline

Excavations

• "Cave of Letters" at Nahal Hever in the Judaean Desert.
• Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex.^[1]
• Floors excavated at the Una Vida great house, Chaco Canyon.
• Cape Gelidonya shipwreck excavation, by Peter Throckmorton, George F. Bass and Frédéric Dumas, begins.
• August: Excavations at Castle Tower, Penmaen, in Wales begin, led by Leslie Alcock of University College Cardiff. Further small-scale work is undertaken at the site the following year and the results published in 1966.^[2]

Publications

• Glyn Daniel - The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France.^[3]

Finds

• Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad find apparent Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
• Tomb of Princess Yongtai found in Qianling Mausoleum, China.
• Azykh Cave is discovered by Mammadali Huseynov in Azerbaijan.^{[4] [5]}
• November 4 - OH 7, first fragments of Homo habilis, discovered by Jonathan Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
• Statue of Athena Demegorusa in Nicopolis, western Greece.

Events

• Chemical tests indicate that the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, are modern fakes.^[6]

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

• February 20 - Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (b. 1880)^[7]
• March 11 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (b. 1884)^[8]
• May 13 - Antonios Keramopoulos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1870)
• October 6 - Karel Absolon, Czech archaeologist (b. 1877)

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1959 in archaeology
• 1961 in archaeology

Notes and References

1. News: BBC - Digging in the 60s at Fishbourne Roman Palace. news.bbc.co.uk. 27 August 2010 . 4 June 2017.
2. Alcock . Leslie . Talbot . E. J. . 1966 . Castle Tower, Penmaen: A Norman Ring-work in Glamorgan . The Antiquaries Journal . en . 46 . 2 . 179 . 10.1017/S0003581500053245 . 161300451 . 0003-5815.
3. Book: The prehistoric chamber tombs of France : a geographical, morphological and chronological survey. National Library of Australia. 1960 . Thames and Hudson . 4 June 2017.
4. Book: BAXŞƏLİYEV, VƏLİ. Azərbaycan arxeologiyası. Elm. 2007. 2020-06-28. 2020-01-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20200111025502/http://elibrary.bsu.az/kitablar/898.pdf. dead.
5. Web site: 2017-12-23. Azykh Cave OpenBuildings. https://web.archive.org/web/20171223160904/http://openbuildings.com/buildings/azykh-cave-profile-32441. dead. 2017-12-23. 2020-06-28.
6. Web site: The history of fraud. www.theguardian.com. 22 March 2018. en.
7. Web site: Charles Leonard Woolley - Artefacts of Excavation. egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk. 4 June 2017. en.
8. Web site: Roy Chapman Andrews. Britannica.com. 27 May 2017.