1968 in archaeology

Explorations

• Survey of Anshan in Iran.

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.

Finds

• Archaeological prospection of Buvuma Island directed by the Tervuren Museum finds early use of pottery.
• An early medieval burial excavated at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Tyrväntö, in southern Finland includes the Suontaka sword among ambiguous features of gender expression; research published in 2021 suggests the individual buried had Klinefelter syndrome.
• The lower jaw part of a presumably female Homo heidelbergensis pre-Neanderthal (azykantrop) is found in the acheulean age layer in Azykh cave, in Azerbaijan.
• The Inscription of Sargon II at Tang-i Var.
• San José y Las Animas (shipwreck), which sank off Florida in 1733, located.

Miscellaneous

• June 26 - Pope Paul VI claims that bones discovered in the vicinity of Saint Peter's tomb in 1942 are relics of Peter.
• Project to move temples of Abu Simbel to prevent their inundation by the Aswan High Dam successfully completed.
• The Egyptian Department of Antiquities and the Getty Conservation Institute in Santa Monica, California start a conservation project for tomb of Queen Nefertari.
• Analysis of the environment of Shanidar Cave in Kurdistan suggests that the adult male Neanderthal "Shanidar 4" may have been buried with floral tributes.

Deaths

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

References

References

1. (1 January 1968). "New perspectives in archeology / edited by Sally R. Binford and Lewis R. Binford". Aldine Pub. Co.
2. (1968). "Analytical archaeology". Methuen.
3. (2021-07-15). "A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland". Cambridge University Press.
4. BAXŞƏLİYEV, VƏLİ. (2007). "AZƏRBAYCAN ARXEOLOGİYASI". Elm.
5. "Jawbones and Dragon Legends: Azerbaijan's Prehistoric Azikh Cave by Dr. Arif Mustafayev".
6. Skowronek, Russell. (2021). "Making the Exotic Mundane: The Manila Galleon, the Flota, and Globalization".
7. Leroi-Gourhan, Arlette. (1998). "Shanidar et ses fleurs". [[Paléorient]].
8. "Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod - British archaeologist".