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1981 in archaeology
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The
year 1981 in
archaeology
involved some significant events.
Contents
Explorations
Excavations
Publications
Finds
Awards
Events
Births
Deaths
References
Explorations
June
Owen Beattie of the
University of Alberta
begins the 1845–48 Franklin Expedition Forensic Anthropology Project (FEFAP) on
King William Island
to trace
Franklin's lost expedition
.
Start of archaeological survey seeking
Beothuk
sites on the northeast coast of
Newfoundland
which locates that at Boyd's Cove.
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1
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Late
ice age
tools found in inland
Tasmania
.
Full photographic survey of the wreck of the
Breadalbane
in the
Northwest Passage
.
Excavations
September - Excavation of the Trinchera Dolina at the
archaeological site of Atapuerca
in northern Spain begins.
Ain Ghazal
is discovered during road construction outside
Amman
,
Jordan
.
Excavation of Etruscan (or Greek) shipwreck of
c.
600
BCE
off
Isola del Giglio
, Italy, directed by
Mensun Bound
, begins.
Publications
David Burgess-Wise
-
Automobile Archaeology
(Cambridge, England: Patrick Stephens Ltd).
Derek Roe
-
The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).
Finds
Ceremonial decorated bronze Celtic
Agris Helmet
found in a cave near
Agris
in southwestern France.
Wreck of
RMS
Republic
(1903)
located off
Nantucket
by Captain
Martin Bayerle
.
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2
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3
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Wreck of
HMS
Formidable
(1898)
located off the south west coast of England.
[
4
]
Undley bracteate
found near
Lakenheath
in eastern England.
Gold
bar found in
Mexico City
, subsequently confirmed as made of material appropriated during the
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
and presumably abandoned by the Spanish at the time of
La Noche Triste
in 1520.
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5
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Awards
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Events
June 12 - Film
Raiders of the Lost Ark
, featuring fictional 1930s
archaeologist
Indiana Jones
, is released.
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Colin Renfrew
is elected to the
Disney Professorship of Archaeology
in the
University of Cambridge
.
Riace bronzes
are put on show in Italy for the first time since their discovery in 1972.
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7
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Births
Fadel al-Utol
, Palestinian archaeologist
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Deaths
References
↑
"The Boyd's Cove Beothuk Site"
.
Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador
. 1999. Archived from
the original
on 2020-09-26
. Retrieved
2021-02-19
.
↑
Pickford, Nigel (1999).
Lost Treasure Ships of the Twentieth Century
. Washington, D.C.:
National Geographic Society
.
ISBN
0-7922-7472-5
.
↑
"Treasure of the RMS Republic"
. New York: MVSHQ, Inc. 2009
. Retrieved
2012-03-22
.
↑
"HMS Formidable
[
+1915
]
"
.
Wrecksite
. 2020-05-15
. Retrieved
2021-02-23
.
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"Mexico City gold was Aztec loot Spanish abandoned as they fled in 1520, tests show"
.
The Guardian
. London. Reuters. 2020-01-10
. Retrieved
2020-01-12
.
↑
"
'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark': 1981 review"
.
NY Daily News
. 15 March 2016
. Retrieved
5 June
2017
.
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"The Riace bronzes- 43 years ago, the bronze warriors emerged from the sea"
.
The Vintage News
. 21 May 2016
. Retrieved
30 December
2017
.
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Imbert, Louis (2022-11-18).
"
'Gaza is a man who cries and doesn't want to say so': The enclave from North to South, a crossing between sea and wall"
. Retrieved
2025-02-24
.
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