1961 in archaeology

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The year 1961 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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.

Publications

• M. J. Aitken - Physics and Archaeology.
• Glyn Daniel - The Idea of Prehistory.
• Alan Gardiner - Egypt of the Pharaohs.