Explorations

• Ian Graham
  Ian Graham
  Ian Graham is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL during the 1960s.His best season came in 1964 when he won the Copeland Trophy for Collingwood's Best and Fairest player...
  
   makes first scientific examination and map of Maya
  Maya civilization
  The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...
  
   site of Cival
  Cival
  Cival is an archaeological site in the Petén Basin region of the southern Maya lowlands, which was formerly a major city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the present-day Department of Petén, Guatemala....
  
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Excavations

• Hengistbury Head
  Hengistbury Head
  Hengistbury Head is a headland jutting into the English Channel between Bournemouth and Milford on Sea in the English county of Dorset.At the end is a spit which creates the narrow entrance to Christchurch Harbour.-Location:...
  
  , by Barry Cunliffe
  Barry Cunliffe
  Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, CBE, known professionally as Barry Cunliffe is a former Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford, a position held from 1972 to 2007...
  
  , is completed (begun in 1979
  1979 in archaeology
  The year 1979 in archaeology involved some significant events.-Explorations:* Tillya Tepe surveyed by a Soviet-Afghan mission of archaeologists led by Victor Sarianidi.-Excavations:* Hengistbury Head by Barry Cunliffe .-Finds:...
  
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• July - Uluburun shipwreck
  Uluburun shipwreck
  The Uluburun Shipwreck is a Late Bronze Age shipwreck dated to the late 14th century BCE, discovered off Uluburun situated about 6 miles southeast of Kaş, in south-western Turkey...
  
  , by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology under George Bass
  George Bass (archaeologist)
  George Fletcher Bass is recognized as one of the early practitioners of underwater archaeology, along with Peter Throckmorton, Honor Frost, and others....
  
  , begun (continues until 1994
  1994 in archaeology
  The year 1994 in archaeology involved some significant events.-Excavations:* National Institute of Anthropology and History excavations at Maya site of Chacchoben begin-Publications:* Alan K...
  
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Finds

• Turkana Boy
  Turkana Boy
  Turkana Boy, also occasionally, Nariokotome Boy is the common name of fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid who died in the early Pleistocene. This specimen is the most complete early human skeleton ever found. It is 1.5 million years old...
  
   is found in Kenya
  Kenya
  Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
  
   by team led by Richard Leakey
  Richard Leakey
  Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey...
  
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• Wreck of CSS Alabama
  CSS Alabama
  CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, United Kingdom, in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never anchored in...
  
   is found by the French Navy
  French Navy
  The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...
  
   off Cherbourg.