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The year 1956 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
Excavations
- Large University of Pennsylvania project at Tikal begins.
- Excavations of the Neolithic settlement at Argissa Magoula in Thessaly by Vladimir Milojčić of the University of Heidelberg begin (continue to 1958).
- Excavations of the Danubian Neolithic settlement at Bylany in Bohemia begin.
- Excavations at Brahmagiri.
- Excavations at Teppe Hasanlu begin (continue to 1974).
- Systematic excavation of Diolkos in Greece by Nikolaos Verdelis begins (continues to 1962).[1]
- Excavations at Longbridge Deverill Cow Down in the United Kingdom under the direction of Sonia Chadwick for the Ministry of Works (continues to 1960).[2]
Publications
- Documents in Mycenaean Greek by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick; documenting decipherment of Linear B writing.
Finds
- Anders Franzén locates the Swedish warship Vasa, sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, in Stockholm harbor.
- K. M. A. Barnett discovers Lo Ah Tsai Stone Circle on Lamma Island in Hong Kong.
Events
- W. F. Grimes succeeds V. Gordon Childe as director of the University of London Institute of Archaeology.
Births
- March 24 - Alanah Woody, American archaeologist (d. 2007).[3]
- April 30 - Antonio Sagona, Australian archaeologist (d. 2017).[4]
- Yosef Garfinkel, Israeli archaeologist.[5]
Deaths
- June 6 - Hiram Bingham III, American rediscoverer of Machu Picchu (b. 1875).
- September 6 - Michael Ventris, English co-decipherer of Linear B (car accident) (b. 1922).[6]
- September 12 - John Garstang, English archaeologist of the Near East (in Beirut) (b. 1876).[7]
- November 9 - Alan Wace, English archaeologist who worked on Linear B (b. 1879).
References
- ↑ Verdelis, Nikolaos. "Le diolkos de L'Isthme". Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963.
- ↑ Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick (1994). "Longbridge Deverill Cow Down, Wiltshire, House 3: A Major Round House of the Early Iron Age". Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 13 (1): 49–69. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1994.tb00031.x. ISSN 0262-5253.
- ↑ "Virginia City News". virginiacitynews.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ↑ Jamieson, Andrew (12 October 2017). "Scholar brought the ancient world to life". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ↑ "Garfinkel, Yosef". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ↑ "Michael Ventris - British architect and cryptographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ↑ "John Garstang". Britannica.com. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
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