1968 in archaeology

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The year 1968 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• Anne Stine Ingstad and Helge Ingstad complete excavations of Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows.
• Prof. Richard J. C. Atkinson undertakes work at Silbury, broadcast on BBC Television (continues to 1970).
• Colin Renfrew begins excavations at Sitagroi, Greece (continues to 1970).

Publications

• Sally R. and Lewis R. Binford (ed.) - New Perspectives in Archeology.
• David L. Clarke - Analytical Archaeology.
• Erich von Däniken - Erinnerungen an die Zukunft: Ungelöste Rätsel der Vergangenheit (Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past).

Finds

• Archaeological prospection of Buvuma Island directed by the Tervuren Museum finds early use of pottery.

Miscellaneous

• Project to move temples of Abu Simbel to prevent their inundation by the Aswan High Dam successfully completed
• The Egyptian National Antiquities Service and the Getty Conservation Institute in Santa Monica, California started conservation project for tomb of Queen Nefertari.

kim edna petersBirths

• born April 14 1968

Deaths

• December 18 - Dorothy Garrod, English Palaeolithic archaeologist of the Near East (born 1892).