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1996 in archaeology

List of years in archaeology

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In science: 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999

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The year 1996 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Preliminary survey of Buckton Castle in the north west of England.
A Bronze Age site, al-Moghraqa, was discovered by Moain Sadeq in Gaza Governorate, State of Palestine.^[1]

Excavations

July – excavations at Blakhiya Byzantine cemetery in Palestine take place under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of Gaza and the École Biblique.^[2]
Large-scale, wide-scope horizontal excavations begin at Daepyeong, a large Mumun Pottery Period settlement in Korea (continued until early 2000).
Excavations near Bogazköy by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft begin (continued until 1999).
Excavation of the Portuguese nau Nossa Senhora dos Mártires (1605–06) at the mouth of the Tagus begins (continued until 2001).
First excavation of medieval drain at Paisley Abbey in Scotland.

Publications

Matthew Johnson - An Archaeology of Capitalism (Blackwell).
Denise Schmandt-Besserat - How Writing Came About (University of Texas Press).
Rita P. Wright (ed.) - Gender and Archaeology (University of Pennsylvania Press).
First issue of e-journal Internet Archaeology.

Finds

July: Mass grave of victims of the Battle of Towton (1461) in England.
July 28: Kennewick Man in the United States.
August 4: Seaton Carew Wreck in England.
November 21: Pirate flagship Queen Anne's Revenge (run aground 1718) in North Carolina.
Herxheim archaeological site, a Neolithic Linear Pottery culture ritual center and mass grave at Herxheim in southwest Germany.
The Keltenfürst (Celtic prince) of Glauberg in Germany, a life-size sandstone statue of a warrior dating from the 5th century BCE.^[3]
Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription in Israel.
Lod Mosaic in Israel.
Croatian Apoxyomenos off the Croatian islet of Vele Orjule.
Hermes of Messene in Messene, Greece.
Ōfune Site, one of the Jōmon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidō, Japan.
"Great Dover Street woman" from Roman Britain in London.^[4]
Polychrome wall paintings (dated to 1090) at church of St Mary the Virgin in the deserted village of Houghton on the Hill, Norfolk, England.^[5]

Awards

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Events

Yale University Bonampak Documentation Project begins at Maya site of Bonampak.
November 2: Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum opens in Japan.

Births

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Deaths

January 17- William Lamplough, British archaeologist (b. 1914).
March 18 - Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist (b. 1910).^[6]
September 23 - Stuart Piggott, British archaeologist (b. 1910).^[7]
November 14 - Martyn Jope, British archaeologist and biochemist (b. 1915).
December 9 - Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913).

References

^ Steel, Louise; Clarke, Joanne; Sadeq, Moain; Manley, Bill; McCarthy, Andrew; Munro, R. Neil (2004), "Gaza Research Project. Report on the 1999 and 2000 Seasons at al-Moghraqa", Levant, 36: 37, doi:10.1179/lev.2004.36.1.37
^ Morhange, Christophe; Taha, Mohamed Hamdan; Humbert, Jean-Baptiste; Marriner, Nick (2005), "Human settlement and coastal change in Gaza since the Bronze Age", Méditerranée: Revue géographique des pays méditerranéens, 104: 75–78, doi:10.4000/mediterranee.2252
^ Bosinski, F.-M.; Herrmann, F.-R. (2000). "Zu den frühkeltischen Statuen vom Glauberg". Ber. Komm. Arch. Landesforsch. Hessen. 5, 1998/99: 41–48.
^ "Archaeologists May Have Found Woman Gladiator's Grave". The New York Times. 2000-09-13. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
^ "The Wall Paintings". St Mary's Church. Retrieved 2021-04-04.
^ "Obituary: Jacquetta Hawkes". The Independent. 20 March 1996. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
^ "Obituary: Professor Stuart Piggott". The Independent. 27 September 1996. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 30 May 2017.

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