The year 1983 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

* Laconia Survey begins (joint British–Dutch project); continues to 1989.

Excavations

* Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, Zhao Mo, Emperor Wen of Nanyue (d. 122 BCE), discovered under Elephant Hill in Guangzhou, China, and excavation by

Mai Yinghao Mai Yinghao (; 15 July 1929 – 28 November 2016) was a Chinese archaeologist. He led the excavation of three major archaeological sites in Guangzhou: the Qin dynasty shipyard, the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, and the Royal Palace and Garden of t ...

and Huang Zhanyue begins. *

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in Syria, by an American team, is begun. * Hengistbury Head, by

Barry Cunliffe Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, (born 10 December 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, is a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been an Emeri ...

, is continued (begun in

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

). * Boxgrove Quarry, by Mark Roberts of University College London, is begun (continues to 1996). * Abric Romani cave near Capellades in Catalonia is begun.

Publications

* Christopher Chippindale - ''Stonehenge Complete''. * R. C. Gaur - ''Excavations at Atranjikhera: early civilization of the Upper Ganga Basin''.

Finds

* May 13 -

Lindow Woman Lindow Woman and Lindow I are the names given to the partial remains of a female bog body, discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss, near Wilmslow in Cheshire, England, on 13 May 1983 by commercial peat-cutters. The remains were largely a skull fr ...

discovered at

Lindow Moss __NOTOC__ Lindow Moss, also known as Saltersley Common, is a raised mire peat bog on the edge of Wilmslow in Cheshire, England. It has been used as common land since the medieval period and is best known for the discovery of the preserved bog b ...

in north west England by peat cutters. * First

Ayn Ghazal statues Ayn may refer to: * Ayin or , a letter in many Semitic scripts * Ayn, Savoie, a commune of the Savoie département of France * Ghayn (Cyrillic) (Ғ,ғ), a letter used in the Bashkir, Kazakh, and Tajik alphabets * Ayn Rand, Russian-born American nov ...

found in Jordan. * Zhangjiashan Han bamboo texts, including the '' Book on Numbers and Computation'', from tomb M247 at Mount Zhangjia in central China. * Kitora Tomb discovered at

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. * 16th century turkey bones in

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, England, subsequently identified as from one of the earliest of the birds in Britain. *

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in England.

Events

* British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles is formed.

Births

Deaths

Joan du Plat Taylor Joan Mabel Frederica du Plat Taylor FSA (Glasgow, 26 June 1906 – Cambridge, 21 May 1983) was a British archaeologist and pioneer of underwater nautical archaeology. Early life and education Joan Mabel Frederica Du Plat Taylor was born in G ...

, British pioneer of maritime archaeology (b.

1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

)

References

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