The year 1999 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• Excavations resume at Qatna, in Syria, by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft.
• Wide-scope vertical and horizontal excavation of world's oldest wet-rice (rice paddy) agricultural feature, c. 800 BC, at Okhyeon site, Ulsan, Korea.

Finds

• Shipwreck, originally thought to be , but later identified as Hamburg-America Line's Isis (sunk 1936), located in eastern Atlantic Ocean.^[1]
• 105 mummies are discovered in the first four tombs to be opened in the Valley of the Golden Mummies in Egypt.
• A frozen and mummified body, later named Kw day D n Ts nchi ("Long Ago Person Found"), is found in a Canadian glacier.
• John and Deborah Darnell of the Theban Desert Road Survey announce discovery of inscriptions from around 1800 BCE at Wadi el-Hol, Egypt, in a partly phonetic Proto-Sinaitic alphabet.^[2][3]

Publications

• Penelope M. Allison (ed.) The Archaeology of Household Activities.
• John Carman and Anthony Harding (ed.) Ancient Warfare: archaeological perspectives.
• Chris Gosden and Jon Hather (ed.) The Prehistory of Food: appetites for change.
• Matthew Johnson Archaeological Theory: an introduction.
• Thomas St llner Der pr historische Salzbergbau am D rrnberg bei Hallein: Forschungsgeschichte, Forschungsstand, Forschungsanliegen, Bd 1.
• July August issue of Archaeology asks: "Is Schliemann Mask a Fake?". Some scholars, noting that the "Mask of Agamemnon" is significantly different from the others found at the site, contend that Schliemann had some of the features added to make the mask appear more heroic to viewers of his day.

Events

Births

Deaths

• March 31 Yuri Knorozov, epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphs
• July 16 Barri Jones
• Arvid Andr n

References

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