1961 in archaeology
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The year 1961 in archaeology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Explorations
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[edit] Excavations
- April 24 - Work starts on salvage of the Swedish warship Vasa, sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, from Stockholm harbor.
- November - Start of one-year excavation of Malik by Iranian archaeologists.
- Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad begin excavation of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, first archaeologically confirmed evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.
- INAH project dredges artifacts from the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza.
- Start of excavations at Çatalhöyük by James Mellaart.
- First underwater archaeology at Alexandria carried out by Kamal Abu el-Saadat.
[edit] Publications
- M. J. Aitken - Physics and Archaeology.
- Glyn Daniel - The Idea of Prehistory.
- Alan Gardiner - Egypt of the Pharaohs.
[edit] Finds
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[edit] Miscellaneous
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