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Contents 1 Explorations 2 Excavations 3 Publications 4 Finds 5 Awards 6 Miscellaneous 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Explorations

[edit] Excavations

• Grinnell College project at Mayapan.
• Excavations at Cival directed by Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli.
• French archaeologists begin excavating Ulug Depe, an ancient bronze-age agricultural town in Turkmenistan

[edit] Publications

[edit] Finds

• Ringlemere Cup found by metal-detectorist Cliff Bradshaw near Dover, England.

[edit] Awards

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• March 29: Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer; co-discoverer of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows
• July 8: Jia Lanpo, Chinese prehistorian, buried at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China
• K.C. Chang, Taiwanese archaeologist; Yale and Harvard professor, author The Archaeology of Ancient China