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Excavations
- Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex, by Barry Cunliffe.
- Floors excavated at the Una Vida great house, Chaco Canyon.
- Cape Gelidonya shipwreck excavation, by Peter Throckmorton, George F. Bass and Frédéric Dumas, begins.
Publications
- Glyn Daniel - The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France.
Finds
- Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad find apparent Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
- November 4 - OH 7, first fragments of Homo habilis, discovered by Jonathan Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Births
- April 21 - Nicholas Thomas, Australian-born British archaeologist of Oceania
- May 11 - Pál Sümegi, Hungarian geoarchaeologist
- September 1 - Eric H. Cline, American Classical archaeologist
- Timothy Taylor, English archaeologist
Deaths
- October 6 - Karel Absolon, Czech archaeologist (b. 1877)
- March 11 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (b. 1884)
- February 20 - Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (b. 1880)
See also
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