Overview of the events of 1970 in archaeology
YouTube Encyclopedic
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Smithsonian Institution Excavations at Tel Jemmeh, Israel, 1970 - 1973
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Dr. Euan MacKie: The Megalith Builders - British Archaeology & Alexander Thom FULL LECTURE
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Cracking the Stone Age Code - BBC Chronicle
Explorations
Excavations
Publications
- P. V. Glob - Hojfolket: Bronzealderens mennesker bevaret i 3000 år (The Mound People: Danish bronze-age man preserved).
Finds
- July - Heilongjiang hand cannon, dating from c. 1288, discovered by Wei Guozhong in Manchuria.
- October 21 - Loose timber from the wreck of the Tudor warship Mary Rose found in the Solent off the coast of England.
- First Botorrita plaque.
- Sweet Track discovered by John Sweet in the Somerset Levels of England.
- Blackfriars Ships III and IV discovered by Peter Marsden in London.
- Submarine CSS H. L. Hunley (sunk in action 1864) is claimed to be located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, by E. Lee Spence.
- Buckquoy spindle-whorl, dating from the Early Middle Ages, probably the 8th century, excavated in Buckquoy, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland; notable because of its Ogham inscription.
Awards
Events
Births
Deaths
See also
References
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