1972 in archaeology

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The year 1972 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

• January–April - Dutch East India Company ship Vergulde Draeck wrecked in 1656 off Western Australia.^[1]
• Carlos Navarrete
  .
• Tell Abu Hureyra, in Syria.
• Phrasikleia Kore funerary statue (c.540 BCE) at Myrrhinous (Merenta) in Attica.
• Tombs with artefacts at Mawangdui in China (1972–1974 excavations).
• At Mesa Verde National Park, the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project is completed, with excavation of three cliff dwellings (Long House, Mug House, and Step House), including a survey of Wetherill Mesa and excavation of selected mesa-top sites (begun in 1959).
• A
  Yucatan peninsula prove that the Maya
  practiced intensive agriculture in raised, narrow, rectangular plots that they built above the low-lying, seasonally flooded land bordering along rivers.
• Excavations at Skara Brae under D. V. Clarke begin.
• First excavation of
  Skye
  .

Discoveries

• August 16 - Riace bronzes are discovered in the Ionian Sea.
• October - Varna Necropolis, in Bulgaria.
• The lost 1st millennium city of Ciudad Perdida is found by Colombian looters; it is not reached by official archaeologists until 1976.
• Tamatsuzuka mural discovered in Asuka, central Nara, Japan.
• Vindolanda tablets discovered by Robin Birley.
• Cave paintings in Galería de la Eduarda y el Kolora at the archaeological site of Atapuerca in northern Spain begins discovered by speleologists.

Publications

• March - The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration first published, under the auspices of the
  UK
  .
• ISBN 0-12-807750-6
• R. A. Buchanan - Industrial Archaeology in Britain. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
  ISBN 0-14-021413-5
  .
• ISBN 0-413-28050-0
  .

• March 30–September 30 - The Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition is first shown, at the British Museum in London.
• November 16 - Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO, paving the way for the adoption of World Heritage Sites.

Births

• April 4 - Martin Rundkvist, Swedish archaeologist

Deaths

• April 21 - Kenneth Murray, English-born archaeologist in Nigeria (b. 1903)
• May 4 - Hetty Goldman, American archaeologist (b. 1881)^[2]
• June 9 - Aage Roussell, Danish archaeologist (b. 1901)
• October 1 - Louis Leakey, Kenyan paleoanthropologist, died in London (b. 1903)^[3]
• Charles Green, English archaeologist (b. 1901)

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1971 in archaeology
• 1973 in archaeology

References