1. Explorations

2. Excavations

3. Finds

4. Publications

5. Events

6. Births

7. Deaths

8. References

The year 1978 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• New excavations at Brahmagiri by Amalananda Ghosh.
• Excavations begin at Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site in Wales.
• New excavations begin at Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles on Holy Island, Anglesey, off the coast of Wales.
• Comprehensive excavations at Alepotrypa cave in Greece begin.

Finds

• February 21 - The remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan.
• Bactrian Gold hoard.
• Cherchen Man in China.
• Pictish stone depicting a bearded figure at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
• Wreck of a Basque whaling galleon, probably the San Juan, off Saddle Island, Labrador.

Publications

• Lewis R. Binford - Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology.
• Mounir Bouchenaki - Cités antiques d'Algérie.
• Richard A. Gould (ed.) - Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology.
• Keith Muckelroy - Maritime Archaeology.
• Paleontologist Björn Kurtén's short novel Dance of the Tiger, dealing with the interaction between Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals, is published in Sweden as Den Svarta Tigern.

Events

• Theban Mapping Project is established.
• September - Thousands march through Dublin to Wood Quay to protest against the building of civic offices on the Viking site.^[1]

Births

Deaths

• August 19 - Sir Max Mallowan, English archaeologist (born 1904).^[2]
• October 8 - Bertha Cody, Native American archaeologist (born 1907).

References

• HK Voronezh
• HK VTJ Spišská Nová Ves
• HK Yunost Minsk
• HKZMB
• HK Zorkij
• HK 変態仮面
• HK 変態仮面 アブノーマル・クライシス
• HL10
• HL2: EP4
• Hl3
• HL-42 (spacecraft)
• HL-60(TB)
• Hla-a1 antigen
• Hla-a2 antigen
• Hla-a3 antigen
• Hla-b35 antigen
• HLA-B*5701
• Hla-b7 antigen
• Hla-b8 antigen
• Hlabta
• HLA class I deficiency
• HLA complex
• Hla complex group 22
• Hladnik
• Hladnik's scopolia