1982 in archaeology explained

The year 1982 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Events

• Archaeological Museum of Olympia opens in Greece.
• Eindhoven Museum founded as an archaeological open-air museum in the Netherlands.

Excavations

• October 11 - Hull of Tudor navy ship Mary Rose raised from the Solent.^[1]
• The Chaco Project ends at Chaco Canyon (begun 1971).

Finds

• March - Wreck of located in Puerto Deseado on the Atlantic coast of Patagonia.^[2]
• May 12 - Coppergate Helmet found in York, England.^[3]
• NASA's Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TIMS) detects over 200 miles of a precolumbian (900 CE or 1000 CE) road system in Chaco Canyon, as well as walls, buildings and agricultural fields.^[4]
• Uluburun shipwreck discovered.

Publications

• A. F. Harding (ed.) - Climatic Change in Later Prehistory
• Richard Hodges - Dark Age Economics: the Origins of Towns and Trade, A.D. 600-1000
• Roger Moorey - A Century of Biblical Archaeology

Deaths

• September 18 - Pei Wenzhong, founding father of Chinese anthropology, buried at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China (b. 1904).^[5]
• October - Michael J. O'Kelly, Irish archaeologist (b. 1915).^[6]

Notes and References

1. News: BBC. On This Day. Mary Rose rises after 437 years. 11 October 1982 . 15 May 2017.
2. Dolores. Elkin. Archaeological research and heritage management of a British shipwreck in Argentina - the legacy of HMS Swift (1770). Post-Medieval Archaeology. 56. 2022. 3 . 225–48. 10.1080/00794236.2022.2120718. 2024-01-17.
3. Web site: The York Helmet. Yorkshire Museum. York. 15 May 2017.
4. Book: Trombold. Charles D.. Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World. 1991. Cambridge University Press. 9780521383370. 7. en.
5. Web site: Pei, Wenzhong (1904-1982) - People and organisations. Trove. 15 May 2017. en.
6. Book: O'Kelly. Michael J.. O'Kelly. Claire. Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory. 6 April 1989. Cambridge University Press. xi. 9780521336871. en.