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The year 1973 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Explorations 2 Excavations 3 Finds 4 Events 5 Publications 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Explorations

[edit] Excavations

• Meadowcroft Rock Shelter under James M. Adovasio.
• Heavenly Horse Tomb (Cheonmachong), a mounded tomb of Silla (c. AD 300/400-668) royalty in Gyeongju, Korea.
• Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski and her colleagues has the opportunity to work on the previously undisturbed peristyle garden of the House of G. Polybius in Pompeii.

[edit] Finds

• Vindolanda tablets discovered by Robin Birley near Hadrian's Wall, England.
• Fossils of a human premolar and 40 mammalian species excavated at Locality 4 in Zhoukoudian, China.

[edit] Events

• First Mesa Redonda de Palenque conference in Palenque starts very productive process leading to major improvements in understanding Maya hieroglyphics and the iconography of Maya civilization.
• Tucson Garbage Project, initiated by William Rathje.
• Protection of Wrecks Act passed

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