1965 in archaeology

Excavations

• Start of five-year project of excavations and restorations at Altun Ha led by Dr. David Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum.
• Start of 18-year excavations at Roman Baths (Bath) led by Barry Cunliffe.
• Start of three-year excavations at Bab edh-Dhra.
• Hinton St Mary Mosaic in England.
• Excavations at Brahmagiri by Amalananda Ghosh.
• Further excavations at the Roman temple of Bziza by Haroutune Kalayan.
• The final version of the 33 m Tikal Temple 33 at the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala is completely dismantled by archaeologists.
• Excavation at Tel Arad by Yohanan Aharoni (continues until 1967).

Finds

• March 19 - Wreck of the is discovered off Charleston, South Carolina, exactly 102 years after her sinking, by E. Lee Spence.
• June - Jutholmen wreck (sunk c.1700) is discovered off Dalarö, Sweden.
• June - The Golden Bust of Septimius Severus is found in Didymoteicho, Greece.
• August - Mosaic floor at Sparsholt Roman Villa, Hampshire, England.
• November - Kyrenia ship is found near Kyrenia, Cyprus.
• December - Sword of Goujian is found in Jiangling County, China.
• Geologist Nikolai Samorukov finds petroglyphs in the rocks at Kaikuul Bluff overlooking the Pegtymel River in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
• Group of gold and silver vessels found at Tepe Fullol in northern Afghanistan.
• Fir Clump Stone Circle in Wiltshire, England, rediscovered.
• Mammoth remains found at Mezhirich, Ukraine.
• First fossilized fragment of the hominin later identified as Australopithecus anamensis found in the Kanapoi region of Lake Turkana.
• A carved stone head is discovered during excavations at Deganwy Castle in north Wales. Depicted wearing a crown, the figure may represent Llywelyn the Great who rebuilt the castle in the first third of the 13th century.

Publications

• R. G. Collingwood and R. P. Wright - The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, vol. 1.
• P. V. Glob - Mosefolket Jernalderens Mennesker bevaret i 2000 Ar (The Bog People: Iron-Age man preserved).

Deaths

• July 14 - Herbert Maryon, British conservator (b. 1874).
• October 5 - Sir Ian Richmond, British archaeologist of Ancient Rome (b. 1902).

References

References

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2. Warner, Eugene. (April 1970). "Diver Lee Spence". Sandlapper.
3. Hatch, Katherine. (February–March 1972). "Treasure Diver". Treasure World.
4. Rooney, Kevin. (March 1980). "Wreck of the Georgianna {{sic}}". Skin Diver.
5. "The Jutholmen wreck". Sjöhistoriska.
6. (1999). "The new hominid species ''Australopithecus anamensis''". Evolutionary Anthropology.
7. (1967). "A Crowned Head from Degannwy Castle, Caernarvonshire". The Antiquaries Journal.
8. (1966). "Medieval Britain in 1965". Medieval Archaeology.