Explorations

Excavations

• Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex, by Barry Cunliffe.
• Floors excavated at the Una Vida great house, Chaco Canyon.
• Cape Gelidonya shipwreck excavation, by Peter Throckmorton, George F. Bass and Fr d ric Dumas, begins.

Publications

• Glyn Daniel - The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France.

Finds

• Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad find apparent Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
• November 4 - OH 7, first fragments of Homo habilis, discovered by Jonathan Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Awards

Miscellaneous

Births

Deaths

• Karel Absolon, Czech archaeologist
• Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer
• Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1959 in archaeology
• 1961 in archaeology

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