The year 1973 in
archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
*16th century subterranean mills are located in caves in
Col des Roches
Col des Roches (el. 919 m.) is a mountain pass in the Jura Mountains on the border between the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and France.
It connects Le Locle in Switzerland and Morteau
Morteau () is a commune, in the Doubs department in ...
, Switzerland.
Excavations
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Meadowcroft Rock Shelter
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site located near Avella, Pennsylvania, Avella in Jefferson Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania. The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek (a ...
under
James M. Adovasio
James M. Adovasio (born 1944) is an American archaeologist and one of the foremost experts in perishable artifacts (such as basketry and textiles). He was formerly the Provost, Dean of the Zurn School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Di ...
.
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Heavenly Horse Tomb
Cheonmachong, formerly Tomb No.155 in South Korea, is a tumulus located in Gyeongju, South Korea. The name "Cheonmachong" means Sky horse tomb. This tomb was built in the style of Silla. Excavation of the tomb began on April 16, 1973 and is beli ...
(Cheonmachong), a mounded tomb of
Silla (c. AD 300/400-668) royalty in
Gyeongju
Gyeongju ( ko, 경주, ), historically known as ''Seorabeol'' ( ko, 서라벌, ), is a coastal city in the far southeastern corner of North Gyeongsang Province in South Korea. It is the second largest city by area in the province after Andong, ...
,
Korea.
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Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
Wilhelmina Mary Feemster Jashemski (July 10, 1910 – December 24, 2007) was an American scholar of the ancient site of Pompeii, where her archaeological investigations focused on the evidence of gardens and horticulture in the ancient city. ...
and her colleagues have the opportunity to work on the previously undisturbed peristyle garden of the House of G. Polybius in
Pompeii
Pompeii (, ) was an ancient city located in what is now the ''comune'' of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried ...
.
*
Somerset Levels Project begins.
Finds
*
Vindolanda tablets discovered by
Robin Birley Robin Birley may refer to:
* Robin Birley (archaeologist) (1935–2018), English archaeologist
* Robin Birley (businessman)
Robin Marcus Birley (born 19 February 1958) is an English businessman, entrepreneur and political donor. He is the son of ...
near
Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall ( la, Vallum Aelium), also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or ''Vallum Hadriani'' in Latin, is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. R ...
,
England.
*Fossils of a human premolar and 40 mammalian species excavated at Locality 4 in
Zhoukoudian,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
.
*St Peter's Church,
Dunwich, discovered submerged off the
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
coast of
England by Stuart Bacon.
*A large
Song dynasty trade ship of c.
1277
Year 1277 ( MCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* March 19 – Byzantine–Venetian Treaty: Emperor Michael VIII (Palaiolo ...
CE is dredged up from the waters near the southern coast of China with 12 compartments in its
hull
Hull may refer to:
Structures
* Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle
* Fuselage, of an aircraft
* Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds
* Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
* Submarine hull
Mathematics
* Affine hull, in affi ...
. It confirms the descriptions of
bulkheaded hull compartments for
junks in
Zhu Yu's ''Pingzhou Table Talks'' of
1119
Year 1119 (Roman numerals, MCXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Levant
* June 28 – Battle of Ager Sanguinis: The Crusader army of the Princ ...
.
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Updown early medieval cemetery
Updown early medieval cemetery in Eastry railway station, Eastry, Kent, United Kingdom was used as a burial place in the 7th century. Eastry was an important administrative centre in the Kingdom of Kent. Updown was one of four cemeteries in and ...
in Kent, England, discovered through the use of
aerial photography.
*
Aphrodite Hypolympidia at
Dion, Pieria
Dion ( el, Δίον; grc, Δῖον; la, Dium) is a village and municipal unit in the municipality of Dion-Olympos in the Pieria regional unit, Greece. It is located at the foot of Mount Olympus at a distance of 17 km from the capital c ...
in
Greece.
Events
* May–September -
Tomb of Casimir IV Jagiellon
The tomb of Casimir IV Jagiellon (), located in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, is a late 15th century masterpiece created in red marble by German sculptor Veit Stoss in the late Gothic style. Casimir IV, a King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania o ...
in
Wawel Cathedral,
Kraków, opened for conservation.
* July 18 -
Protection of Wrecks Act passed in the
United Kingdom. The first site designated under it is the
Cattewater Wreck
Cattewater Wreck is a wooden three-masted, skeleton-built vessel, one of many ships that have wrecked in Cattewater, Plymouth Sound, England. This wreck is close to the entrance of Sutton Harbour, its name is still unknown but it is believed to ...
at
Plymouth
Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west.
Plymouth ...
on September 5.
* The first Mesa Redonda de Palenque conference in
Palenque starts major improvements in understanding
Maya hieroglyphics
Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered. The earliest inscriptions found which ...
and the
iconography
Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...
of
Maya civilization.
* Confirmation that a site in Iran is the lost city of
Anshan.
*
Tucson Garbage Project initiated by
William Rathje
William Laurens Rathje (July 1, 1945 – May 24, 2012) was an American archaeologist. He was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, and was c ...
.
Publications
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Births
*May 19 -
Alice Roberts, English evolutionary biologist, biological anthropologist and science and archaeology populariser
Deaths
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References
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