Excavations

• Five year project at Quiriguá
  Quiriguá
  Quiriguá is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala. It is a medium-sized site covering approximately along the lower Motagua River, with the ceremonial center about from the north bank. During the Maya Classic Period , Quiriguá was situated at...
  
   begins, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania
  University of Pennsylvania
  The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
  
  , the National Geographic Society
  National Geographic Society
  The National Geographic Society , headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical...
  
  , and the government of Guatemala
  Guatemala
  Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
  
  .
• National Museum of Korea
  National Museum of Korea
  The National Museum of Korea is the flagship museum of Korean history and art in South Korea and is the cultural organization that represents Korea...
  
   and related institutions begin archaeological excavations at Songguk-ri
  Songguk-ri
  Songguk-ri is a Middle and Late Mumun period archaeological site in Buyeo-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. Songguk-ri is a settlement and burial site that is important in the study of Korean prehistory. It is registered as Historical Site No. 249...
  
  , a prehistoric village that serves as the type-site for the material culture of the Middle Mumun Pottery Period
  Mumun pottery period
  The Mumun pottery period is an archaeological era in Korean prehistory that dates to approximately 1500-300 BC This period is named after the Korean name for undecorated or plain cooking and storage vessels that form a large part of the pottery assemblage over the entire length of the period, but...
  
   in Korea
  Korea
  Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
  
   (excavations continue periodically until late 1990s).

Publications

• Barbara Bender - Farming in Prehistory: from hunter-gatherer to food-producer.
• Douglas B. Hague and Rosemary Christie - Lighthouses: their architecture, history and archaeology.
• Adrian Oswald - Clay Pipes for the Archaeologist.

Deaths

• September 9 - J. Eric S. Thompson
  J. Eric S. Thompson
  Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson was an English Mesoamerican archeologist and epigrapher. His contributions to the understanding of Maya hieroglyphs lead him to be one of the foremost mid-20th century anthropological scholars. He was generally known as J. Eric S...
  
  , archaeologist, student of the Maya civilization
  Maya civilization
  The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...