Explorations

Excavations

* Start of 5-year project of large excavations at Birka (Sweden). * Start of 5-year project of excavation and restoration at the

Ruins of Saint Paul's The Ruins of Saint Paul's (; pt, Ruínas de São Paulo) are the ruins of a 17th-century Catholic religious complex in Santo António, Macau, China. They include what was originally St. Paul's College and the Church of St. Paul (''Igreja de ...

, Macau. * Start of long-term project of large excavations at Sagalassos (Turkey) by Marc Waelkens. * Work begins at Leptiminus (Tunisia) by David Mattingly. * Survey and excavation at Tall el-Hammam. * Vijayanagara research project begins in India. * The first of three World War II German tanks is recovered from the Czarna Nida river in southern Poland.

Finds

* March –

Swash Channel Wreck The Swash Channel Wreck is the remains of an early 17th-century armed merchantman possibly of Dutch origin wrecked outside of Poole Harbour. The vessel was approximately 40 m long and has been predicted to be around 600 tonnes. The ship was ...

, a continental European armed merchantman of the early 17th century, is found off the south coast of England. * July - Discovered the rests of a man of the Ortoiroid culture in Vieques island, Puerto Rico, dated back about 2000 b.c. * October – Wonoboyo Hoard of gold and silver artifacts from the 9th century Mataram Kingdom in Central Java. * December 13 –

West Runton Mammoth The West Runton Mammoth is a fossilized skeleton of a steppe mammoth (''Mammuthus trogontherii'') found in the West Runton Cliffs, cliffs of West Runton in the county of Norfolk, England in 1990. The find is the largest nearly complete mammoth ske ...

partially uncovered in England. *

Vũng Tàu shipwreck The Vũng Tàu shipwreck is a shipwreck that was found in the South China Sea off the islands of Côn Đảo about from Vũng Tàu, Vietnam. The wreck was of a lorcha boat—a vessel with Cantonese/Chinese and Portuguese/European influences that ...

, a lorcha (boat) of about 1690 carrying a cargo of porcelain, is identified in the South China Sea (in the

Côn Đảo The Côn Đảo ("Côn Island") are an archipelago of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in the Southeast region of Vietnam, and also a district () of this province. Geography Situated about from Vũng Tàu and from Ho Chi Minh City, the group ...

archipelago). * Workers' tombs in

Giza pyramid complex The Giza pyramid complex ( ar, مجمع أهرامات الجيزة), also called the Giza necropolis, is the site on the Giza Plateau in Greater Cairo, Egypt that includes the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid of Men ...

of Egypt. * " Ossuary of Caiaphas" in Jerusalem. * A road-building crew in Central China accidentally uncovers a Han dynasty vault, containing perhaps tens of thousands of terra-cotta figures.

Publications

* Sylvia P. Beamon and Susan Roaf – ''The Ice-houses of Britain''.

Events

* November –

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produces '' Planning Policy Guidance 16: Archaeology and Planning'' to advise local authorities on the treatment of archaeology within the planning process. Site developers are required to contract with archaeological teams to have sites investigated in advance of development.

Births

Deaths

* January 29 – Leslie Peter Wenham, English Roman archaeologist (born

1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...

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References

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