Explorations

• June 12 - New England
  New England
  New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
  
   Textile Mills Survey commenced by the Historic American Buildings Survey
  Historic American Buildings Survey
  The Historic American Buildings Survey , Historic American Engineering Record , and Historic American Landscapes Survey are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consists of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written...
  
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• July–September - Provo Brickyard Turbine House, Provo, Utah
  Provo, Utah
  Provo is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the county seat of Utah County and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south...
  
  , recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey.

Publications

• Post-medieval archaeology: the journal of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology first published

Finds

• May 20 - Hoard of denarii
  Denarius
  In the Roman currency system, the denarius was a small silver coin first minted in 211 BC. It was the most common coin produced for circulation but was slowly debased until its replacement by the antoninianus...
  
   found at Little Brickhill in Buckinghamshire
  Buckinghamshire
  Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
  
  , England
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
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• Dholavira
  Dholavira
  Dholavira is an archaeological site in Khadirbet in Bhachau Taluka of Kachchh district of Gujarat state in western India, which has taken its name from a modern village 1 km south of it. The site of Dholavira, locally known as Kotada timba contains ruins of an ancient Harappan city...
  
   site is discovered by Shri Jagatpati Joshi.
• Akrotiri (Santorini)
  Akrotiri (Santorini)
  Akrotiri is the name of an excavation site of a Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini, associated with the Minoan civilization due to inscriptions in Linear A, and close similarities in artifact and fresco styles. The excavation is named for a modern Greek village situated...
  
   is discovered.

Miscellaneous

• January 6 - The Society for Historical Archaeology is founded in the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
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• November 3–5 - The theory and practice of industrial archaeology: the Bath
  University of Bath
  The University of Bath is a campus university located in Bath, United Kingdom. It received its Royal Charter in 1966....
  
   Conference on Industrial archaeology
  Industrial archaeology
  Industrial archaeology, like other branches of archaeology, is the study of material culture from the past, but with a focus on industry. Strictly speaking, industrial archaeology includes sites from the earliest times to the most recent...
  
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