1970 in archaeology

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Explorations

• Historic American Engineering Record surveys the original main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Excavations

• Joint British Museum, Harvard University and University of Cambridge project begins at Maya site of Lubaantun under leadership of Norman Hammond.
• Five-year project at Altun Ha, led by Dr. David Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum, ends.
• Retrieval of artefacts from wreck of Batavia off Western Australia begins.
• Joint Archaeological Survey of India and University of Cambridge excavations at Malvan in Gujarat.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 12 July - Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados after a 57-day voyage from Morocco.
• Butser Ancient Farm set up as an experimental archaeology site by the Council for British Archaeology.

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1969 in archaeology
• 1971 in archaeology