1989 in archaeology

The year 1989 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

• Excavations are made at the Temple of Poseidon (near Corinth, also known as the Temple of Isthmia) by University of Chicago.
• Vimala Begley commences excavations at Arikamedu in Puducherry.
• Rescue excavation at Updown early medieval cemetery in Kent, England, led by Brian Philp, uncover 41 previously unexcavated graves.
• Monkey Marsh Lock, an 18th-century turf-sided lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Thatcham in southern England, is excavated and recorded prior to reconstruction.

Finds

• January - Skeleton of Buhl Woman (c. 10,675 BP) found in Idaho.
• May - Wreck of (sunk in collision 1860) discovered off Highwood, Illinois, by Harry Zych.
• June 8 - Wreck of German battleship Bismarck (scuttled in 1941) discovered in North Atlantic by Robert Ballard.
• Wreck of Roman grain-carrying ship Isis (c.150 CE) discovered off the coast of Sicily by Robert Ballard.
• Wreck of German Type UC II submarine SM UC-70 (depth-charged in 1918) discovered off the North Yorkshire coast of England.
• Yoshinogari Ruins discovered at Kanzaki, KyÅ«shÅ«, Japan; goods and building are mainly Yayoi period.
• Remains of The Rose and Globe Theatres discovered in London.
• Luxor statue cache in courtyard of Amenhotep III's colonnade of the Temple of Luxor, including a pink quartzite statue of the king on a sled wearing the Double Crown.
• Laguna Copperplate Inscription found in the Philippines.
• Oldest known wing bone of the great auk found at Eartham Pit, Boxgrove in England.

Publications

• Richard Hodges - The Anglo-Saxon Achievement: Archaeology & the Beginnings of English Society. Duckworth.
• Stuart Piggott - Ancient Britons and the Antiquarian Imagination: Ideas from the Renaissance to the Regency. Thames and Hudson. .

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