1968 in archaeology

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The year 1968 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• Survey of Anshan in Iran.

Excavations

• Anne Stine Ingstad and Helge Ingstad complete excavations of Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows.
• Prof. Richard J. C. Atkinson undertakes work at Silbury, broadcast on BBC Television (continues to 1970).
• Colin Renfrew begins excavations at Sitagroi, Greece (continues to 1970).

Publications

• Sally R. and Lewis R. Binford (ed.) - New Perspectives in Archeology. ^[1]
• David L. Clarke - Analytical Archaeology. ^[2]

Finds

• Archaeological prospection of Buvuma Island directed by the Tervuren Museum finds early use of pottery.
• An early medieval burial excavated at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Tyrväntö, in southern Finland includes the Suontaka sword among ambiguous features of gender expression; research published in 2021 suggests the individual buried had Klinefelter syndrome. ^[3]
• The lower jaw part of a presumably female Homo heidelbergensis pre-Neanderthal (azykantrop) is found in the acheulean age layer in Azykh cave, in Azerbaijan. ^{[4] [5]}
• The Inscription of Sargon II at Tang-i Var.
• San José y Las Animas (shipwreck), which sank off Florida in 1733, located. ^[6]

Miscellaneous

• June 26 - Pope Paul VI claims that bones discovered in the vicinity of Saint Peter's tomb in 1942 are relics of Peter.
• Project to move temples of Abu Simbel to prevent their inundation by the Aswan High Dam successfully completed.
• The Egyptian Department of Antiquities and the Getty Conservation Institute in Santa Monica, California start a conservation project for tomb of Queen Nefertari.
• Analysis of the environment of Shanidar Cave in Kurdistan suggests that the adult male Neanderthal "Shanidar 4" may have been buried with floral tributes. ^[7]

Deaths

• December 18 - Dorothy Garrod, English Palaeolithic archaeologist of the Near East (born 1892). ^[8]

References

1. "New perspectives in archeology / edited by Sally R. Binford and Lewis R. Binford". National Library of Australia. Aldine Pub. Co. 1 January 1968. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
2. Analytical archaeology. Methuen. 1968. OCLC   171654.
3. Moilanen, Ulla; et al. (2021-07-15). "A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland". European Journal of Archaeology . 25. Cambridge University Press: 42–60. doi: 10.1017/eaa.2021.30 . hdl: 10138/340641 .
4. BAXŞƏLİYEV, VƏLİ (2007). AZƏRBAYCAN ARXEOLOGİYASI (PDF). Elm. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-01-11. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
5. "Jawbones and Dragon Legends: Azerbaijan's Prehistoric Azikh Cave by Dr. Arif Mustafayev". azer.com. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
6. Skowronek, Russell (2021). Making the Exotic Mundane: The Manila Galleon, the Flota, and Globalization.
7. Leroi-Gourhan, Arlette (1998). "Shanidar et ses fleurs". Paléorient . 24 (2): 79–88. doi:10.3406/paleo.1998.4679.
8. "Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod - British archaeologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 May 2017.