1999 in archaeology

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The year 1999 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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.
• Croatian Apoxyomenos raised from the sea.

Finds

• Shipwreck, originally thought to be RMS Carpathia, but later identified as Hamburg-America Line's Isis (sunk 1936), located in eastern Atlantic Ocean.
• Shipwreck thought to be William Kidd's pirate ship Adventure Galley (scuttled 1698) located off Madagascar by Barry Clifford.
• 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 Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi ("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.
• Venus of Tan-Tan (300,000–500,000 BP) found in Morocco.
• Ġebel ġol-Baħar, possibly a submerged megalithic temple, is discovered off the coast of Malta.
• Site of Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in The Fens of eastern England first located.

Publications

• Penelope M. Allison (ed.) – The Archaeology of Household Activities.
• Victor Buchli – An Archaeology of Socialism.
• 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 Stöllner – Der prähistorische Salzbergbau am Dürrnberg 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.

Deaths

• March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphs
• July 16 – Barri Jones
• Arvid Andrén