Explorations

* Historic American Engineering Record surveys the original main line of the

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

Excavations

* June - Wreck of

Spanish Armada The Spanish Armada (a.k.a. the Enterprise of England, es, Grande y Felicísima Armada, links=no, lit=Great and Most Fortunate Navy) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aris ...

ship '' El Gran Grifón'' off Fair Isle excavated by Colin Martin and Sydney Wignall. * Joint British Museum, Harvard University and University of Cambridge project begins at Maya site of

Lubaantun Lubaantun (pronounced /lubaːnˈtun/; also Lubaantún in Spanish orthography) is a pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in southern Belize, Central America. Lubaantun is in Belize's Toledo District, about 42 kilometres (26 mi) n ...

under leadership of Norman Hammond. * Five-year project at

Altun Ha Altun Ha is the name given to the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in Belize, located in the Belize District about north of Belize City and about west of the shore of the Caribbean Sea. The site covers an area of about . Stones from the ruins of ...

, led by Dr. David Pendergast of the

Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ...

, ends. * Retrieval of artefacts from wreck of ''

Batavia Batavia may refer to: Historical places * Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands * Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East In ...

'' off Western Australia begins. * Joint Archaeological Survey of India and University of Cambridge excavations at Malvan in Gujarat. * Alepotrypa cave in Greece.

Publications

* P. V. Glob - ''Hojfolket: Bronzealderens mennesker bevaret i 3000 år'' (''The Mound People: Danish bronze-age man preserved'').

Finds

* July - Heilongjiang hand cannon, dating from c. 1288, discovered by Wei Guozhong in Manchuria. * October 21 - Loose timber from the wreck of the Tudor warship '' Mary Rose'' found in the Solent off the coast of England. * October 25 -

Submarine A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely op ...

CSS ''H. L. Hunley'' (sunk in action 1864) is claimed to be located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, by

E. Lee Spence Edward Lee Spence (born November 1947) is a pioneer in underwater archaeology who studies shipwrecks and sunken treasure. He is also a published editor and author of non-fiction reference books; a magazine editor (''Diving World'', ''Atlantic C ...

. * First Botorrita plaque. * Sweet Track discovered by John Sweet in the Somerset Levels of England. * Blackfriars Ships III and IV discovered by Peter Marsden in London. *

Buckquoy spindle-whorl The Buckquoy spindle-whorl is an Ogham-inscribed spindle-whorl dating from the Early Middle Ages, probably the 8th century, which was found in 1970 in Buckquoy, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland. Made of sandy limestone, it is about 36 mm in diameter ...

, dating from the Early Middle Ages, probably the 8th century, excavated in Buckquoy, Birsay,

Orkney Orkney (; sco, Orkney; on, Orkneyjar; nrn, Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north ...

, Scotland; notable because of its Ogham inscription.

Awards

Events

* July 12 - Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat ''Ra II'' arrives in Barbados after a 57-day voyage from Morocco. *

Butser Ancient Farm Butser Ancient Farm is an archaeological open-air museum and experimental archaeology site located near Petersfield, Hampshire, Petersfield in Hampshire, southern England. Butser features experimental reconstructions of prehistoric, Romano-Britis ...

set up as an experimental archaeology site by the Council for British Archaeology.

Births

*March 9 –

Fereidoun Biglari Fereidoun Biglari ( fa, فریدون بیگلری) () is an Iranian archaeologist and a museum curator. Career Fereidoun Biglari is co-founder and head of the Paleolithic department in National Museum of Iran which established in 2001. He is ...

, Iranian archaeologist and museum curator

Deaths

* May 6 - Sir John Beazley, British Classical archaeologist (b.

1885 Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – ...

) * May 29 - Jaroslav Černý, Czech-British Egyptologist (b.

1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...

)

References

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