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1980 in archaeology
Excavations
Aëtos Hill, Menelaion Ridge,
Laconia
,
Greece
, takes place under H. W. Catling.
San Vincenzo al Volturno
by the British School of Archaeology at Rome begin (continue to 1986).
Ain Dara temple
, Syria; continues until 1985.
Excavations begin at
Dryslwyn Castle
in Wales under the direction of
Chris Caple
; the dig lasts until 1995 and the results written up in a monograph published by the
Society for Medieval Archaeology
in 2007
Finds
17 February -
Derrynaflan Chalice
in the south of
Ireland
.
28 March -
Talpiot Tomb
in
Jerusalem
.
August - Wreck of the
Breadalbane
in the
Northwest Passage
.
Wreck of on the
Goodwin Sands
.
Wreck of the paddle steamer
Eric Nordevall
in
Vättern
in Sweden.
Wreck of American
Great Lakes
whaleback
barge
115
in
Lake Superior
.
Frieze at
Aphrodisias
in
Anatolia
showing
Claudius
subjugating
Britannia
.
Publications
W. A. McCutcheon -
The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland
. Belfast:
HMSO
. .
Events
19 December -
Chaco Canyon National Monument
is renamed
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
with 13,000 acres (53 km<sup>2</sup>) added. The
Chaco Culture Archaeological Protection Site
program is created to protect Chacoan sites.
Deaths
January 2 -
Rhys Carpenter
, American Classical art historian (b.
1889
)
August 24 -
André Parrot
,
French
archaeologist of the Near East (b.
1901
)
September 8
Willard Libby
, American physical chemist, key developer of
radiocarbon dating
(b.
1908
)
Keith Muckelroy
, British
maritime archaeologist
, in diving accident (b.
1951
)
November 16 -
Don Crabtree
, American experimental archaeologist (b.
1912
)
See also
Pompeii
References