1976 in archaeology
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1976 in archaeology
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[edit] Explorations
[edit] Excavations
- The Chaco Project (National Park Service and University of New Mexico) excavates fourteen rooms at Pueblo Alto from 1976 to 1978.
- Hwangnyongsa, a large-scale Buddhist temple of the Korean Three Kingdoms state of Silla dating to AD 553 (excavations continue until 1983)
[edit] Publications
- The Mycenaean World by John Chadwick
[edit] Finds
- Joya de Cerén, "Pompeii of the Americas"
- Nim Li Punit
[edit] Awards
[edit] Miscellaneous
- 8 August: Founding of the modern Korean Archaeological Society, Seoul
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- 22 July: Mortimer Wheeler, archaeologist
- Neil Merton Judd
