1978 In Archaeology

The year 1978 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

* New excavations at Brahmagiri by Amalananda Ghosh.
* Excavations begin at Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site in Wales.
* New excavations begin at Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles on Holy Island, Anglesey, off the coast of Wales.
* Comprehensive excavations at Alepotrypa cave in Greece begin.
* Excavation of Proto-Elamite levels of Susa in Iran.

Finds

* February 21 - The remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan.
* March - Pictish stone depicting a bearded figure at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
* Bactrian Gold hoard.
* A new Shapwick Hoard#Other hoards, Shapwick hoard of Roman copper coins in England.
* Cherchen Man in China.
* A fossilized partial human cranium is among hominid remains found in Apidima Cave in southern Greece; in 2019 it is announced as dating to more than 210,000 years BP, making it the earliest example of ''Homo sapiens'' outside Africa.
* First discovery of European lion remains at Tiryns in Mycenaean Greece.
* Wreck of a History of Basque whaling, Basque whaling galleon, probably the ''San Juan'', off Saddle Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Saddle Island, Labrador.

Publications

* Lewis R. Binford - ''Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology''.
* Mounir Bouchenaki - ''Cités antiques d'Algérie''.
* Kenneth Dover - ''Greek Homosexuality (book), Greek Homosexuality''.
* Richard A. Gould (ed.) - ''Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology''.
* Keith Muckelroy - ''Maritime Archaeology''.
* Paleontologist Björn Kurtén's short novel ''Dance of the Tiger'', dealing with the interaction between Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals, is published in Sweden as ''Den Svarta Tigern''.

Events

* Theban Mapping Project is established.
* September - Thousands march through Dublin to Wood Quay to protest against the building of civic offices on the Viking site.

Deaths

* August 19 - Sir Max Mallowan, English people, English archaeologist (born 1904 in archaeology, 1904).
* August 24 - Dame Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist of the Neolithic Fertile Crescent and college principal (born 1906 in archaeology, 1906).
* October 8 - Bertha Parker Pallan, Bertha Cody, Native Americans in the United States, Native American archaeologist (born 1907 in archaeology, 1907).
* November 8 - Terence Mitford, British archaeologist of the Near East (born 1905 in archaeology, 1905).

References

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