Excavations

• Start of salvage excavations at Nevali Cori, to be flooded by dam.

Finds

• Tel Dan Stele

Publications

• Barry Cunliffe - Wessex to AD 1000 (Longman).
• Sarah Milledge Nelson - The Archaeology of Korea (Cambridge University Press).

Events

• Conservators use a sonar probe mounted with two miniature video cameras to remove any remaining clay from inside the Riace bronzes.

Deaths

• Kim Won-yong, the Father of Korean Archaeology, professor at Seoul National University (b. 1922).

See also

• Mesa Verde

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