1965 in archaeology

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The year 1965 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Start of five-year project of excavations and restorations at Altun Ha led by Dr. David Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum.
Start of 18-year excavations at Roman Baths (Bath) led by Barry Cunliffe.
Start of three-year excavations at Bab edh-Dhra.^[1]
Hinton St Mary Mosaic in England.
Excavations at Brahmagiri by Amalananda Ghosh.
Further excavations at the Roman temple of Bziza by Harutune Kalayan.
The final version of the 33-metre-high (108 ft) Tikal Temple 33 at the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala is completely dismantled by archaeologists.
Excavation at Tel Arad by Yohanan Aharoni (continues until 1967).

Finds

March 19 - Wreck of the SS Georgiana is discovered off Charleston, South Carolina, exactly 102 years after her sinking, by E. Lee Spence.^[2]^[3]^[4]
June - Jutholmen wreck (sunk c.1700) is discovered off Dalarö, Sweden.^[5]
June - The Golden Bust of Septimius Severus is found in Didymoteicho, Greece.
August - Mosaic floor at Sparsholt Roman Villa, Hampshire, England.
November - Kyrenia ship is found near Kyrenia, Cyprus.
December - Sword of Goujian is found in Jiangling County, China.
Geologist Nikolai Samorukov finds
Russia
.
Group of gold and silver vessels found at Tepe Fullol in northern Afghanistan.
Fir Clump Stone Circle in Wiltshire, England, rediscovered.
Mammoth remains found at Mezhirich, Ukraine.
First fossilized fragment of the
hominin later identified as Australopithecus anamensis found in the Kanapoi region of Lake Turkana.^[6]

A carved stone head is discovered during excavations at
Llywelyn the Great who rebuilt the castle in the first third of the 13th century.^[7]^[8]

Publications

R. G. Collingwood and R. P. Wright - The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, vol. 1.
P. V. Glob - Mosefolket Jernalderens Mennesker bevaret i 2000 Ar (The Bog People: Iron-Age man preserved).

Events

Deaths

July 14 - Herbert Maryon, British conservator (b. 1874).
October 5 - Sir
archaeologist of Ancient Rome (b. 1902
).

^ Warner, Eugene (April 1970). "Diver Lee Spence". Sandlapper. Columbia, SC: 40–43.

^ Hatch, Katherine (February–March 1972). "Treasure Diver". Treasure World: 44–45.

^ Rooney, Kevin (March 1980). "Wreck of the Georgianna [sic]". Skin Diver. Los Angeles: 80–81, 86–87.

^ "The Jutholmen wreck". Sjöhistoriska. Archived from the original on 2018-01-07. Retrieved 2018-10-09.

S2CID 84278748
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S2CID 246063004
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doi:10.1080/00766097.1966.11735288 – via Archaeology Data Service
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[1] ISBN 978-0-931464-51-5
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[2] Warner, Eugene (April 1970). "Diver Lee Spence". Sandlapper. Columbia, SC: 40–43.

[3] Hatch, Katherine (February–March 1972). "Treasure Diver". Treasure World: 44–45.

[4] Rooney, Kevin (March 1980). "Wreck of the Georgianna [sic]". Skin Diver. Los Angeles: 80–81, 86–87.

[5] "The Jutholmen wreck". Sjöhistoriska. Archived from the original on 2018-01-07. Retrieved 2018-10-09.

[6] S2CID 84278748
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[7] S2CID 246063004
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[8] :10.1080/00766097.1966.11735288 – via Archaeology Data Service
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