The year 1971 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Explorations

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Excavations

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  • The Chaco Project, conducted by the National Park Service and the University of New Mexico, surveys and excavates Chaco Canyon (until 1982)
  • The excavations at Buccino: Two Universities (Wesleyan & Tufts) conducted an excavation and survey program around the town of Buccino to determine the settlement patterns during the Roman period. During the 1971 season three sites were excavated. They ran a series of experiments using the Barringer proton magnetometer which is designed to test the feasibility of its use in the Buccino area. They excavated three sites: the Villa at Vagni, Villa at Pareti, and the Villa at San Nicola. The site at Vagni lies on an artificial terraced platform overlooking the Cosenza-Potenza road and the Platona-Tanagro valley. Within the Villa of Vagni they found pottery which included black gaze. From Vagni it was found that the countryside around Buccino was used till the last years of the fourth century. The Villa at Pareti showed much pottery from the Lucanian which may have suggested that it was Lucanian as well. There was a major problem at the Villa at Pareti which was to features with the polygonal platform walls. The Villa at San Nicola is located below the town of Buccino and across the river from the other two sites.[1]
  • Scientific excavations at Anshan in Iran begin.

Publications

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  • Leakey, M.D., 1971: Olduvai Gorge Volume 3, Excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Finds

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Awards

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Miscellaneous

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Births

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References

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  1. ^ Dyson, Stephen (1972). "Excavations at buccino: 1971". American Journal of Archaeology. 76 (2): 159–163. doi:10.2307/503859. JSTOR 503859. S2CID 245266089. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  2. ^ Bonn-Muller, Eti. "Entombed in Style". Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved 2013-11-16.
  3. ^ "Carl Blegen". Britannica.com. Retrieved 27 May 2017.