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The year 1998 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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

[edit] Explorations

[edit] Excavations

• Igeum-dong, a settlement-burial-ceremonial site of the Mumun Pottery Period in Sacheon, Korea (excavations finish in 1999).

[edit] Finds

• Whydah Gally pirate shipwreck.
• Arthur stone at Tintagel Castle.
• World's oldest wet-rice (rice paddy) agricultural feature, c. 800 BC, at Okhyeon site, Ulsan, Korea.

[edit] Publications

• Exhibition is held at the Harvard University Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts: "The Sphinx and the Pyramids: One Hundred Years of American Archaeology at Giza". Model of the Giza plateau is prepared for it.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• April 18: Linda Schele, Mayanist
• November 24: John Chadwick, co-decypherer of Linear B