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Overview of the events of 1994 in archaeology
The year 1994 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Excavations
Publications
Alan K. Bowman – Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and its People (
British Museum ).
Marc Bermann – Lukurmata: Household Archaeology in Prehispanic Bolivia (Princeton University Press).
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza , Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza – The History and Geography of Human Genes (Princeton University Press).
Gillian Hutchinson – Medieval Ships and Shipping (Leicester University Press).
Naomi F. Miller and Kathryn L. Gleason (ed.) – The Archaeology of Garden and Field (University of Pennsylvania Press).
John Schofield and
Alan Vince – Medieval Towns (Leicester University Press).
Finds
26 June – British submarine
HMS Vandal , lost on sea trials in 1943,
[2] is rediscovered in the
Sound of Bute off the west coast of Scotland.
[3]
Late – Marine archaeologists led by
Jean-Yves Empereur find remains of the
Lighthouse of Alexandria in
Egypt .
[4]
December
Spotted horses and human hands,
Pech Merle cave,
Dordogne , France (painted c. 16000 BC).
Wall painting with horses, rhinoceroses and aurochs,
Chauvet Cave ,
Vallon-Pont-d'Arc ,
Ardèche Gorges ,
France (made c. 25,000–17,000 BC).
Kafkania pebble .
Moroccan
gold
coins and
jewellery discovered at
Salcombe Cannon Wreck site off the coast of south-west England.
Diver Colin Martin discovers the
wreck of the
Hanover (built 1757) off the coast of
Cornwall .
Sannai-Maruyama Site discovered at
Aomori , northern
Honshu , Japan (mainly of
Jōmon period ).
Recovery of
Homo antecessor skeletal remains from the Trinchera Dolina at the
archaeological site of Atapuerca in northern Spain begins; these are the oldest known hominid fossils found in western Europe (between 850,000 and 780,000 years old).
'
Ardi ', the fossilized skeletal remains of a female
Ardipithecus ramidus , discovered at
Aramis, Ethiopia , in the
Afar Depression , the oldest known
hominid fossil (4.4 million years old).
First of the
Schöningen spears .
[5]
Other events
Deaths
References
^ Woodard, Colin (August 15, 2007).
"Popham, Maine's 'lost' colony, to get its modest due" . The Christian Science Monitor . Retrieved April 12, 2023.
^ MacKinnon, Angus (2010).
"The Loss of HM Submarine Vandal (P64) off the Isle of Arran in 1943" . ClydeMaritime . Retrieved 24 February 2018 .
^
"HMS/M Vandal : Inchmarnock Water, Sound of Bute, Firth of Clyde" .
Canmore . Edinburgh:
Historic Environment Scotland . 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2018 .
^
"Treasures of the Sunken City" .
Nova . November 1997. Retrieved 12 January 2012 .
^ Conard, Nicholas J.; Serangeli, Jordi; Bigga, Gerlinde; Rots, Veerle (May 2020).
"A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting" . Nature Ecology & Evolution . 4 (5): 690–693.
doi :
10.1038/s41559-020-1139-0 .
ISSN
2397-334X .
PMID
32313174 .
S2CID
216033478 .
^
"ASPRO: Atlas des Sites du Proche-Orient" .
Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux. 11 June 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2020 .
^
Ogilvie, Marilyn ;
Harvey, Joy (2003).
The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century . Routledge.
ISBN
9781135963422 .
^
"Obituary: Professor Richard Atkinson" . The Independent . 17 October 1994.
Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2017 .