Explorations

• June: Owen Beattie of the University of Alberta
  University of Alberta
  The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...
  
   begins the 1845–48 Franklin Expedition Forensic Anthropology Project (FEFAP) on King William Island
  King William Island
  King William Island is an island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut and forms part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In area it is between and making it the 61st largest island in the world and Canada's 15th largest island...
  
   to trace Franklin's lost expedition
  Franklin's lost expedition
  Franklin's lost expedition was a doomed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845. A Royal Navy officer and experienced explorer, Franklin had served on three previous Arctic expeditions, the latter two as commanding officer...
  
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Excavations

• Ain Ghazal is discovered during road construction outside Amman
  Amman
  Amman is the capital of Jordan. It is the country's political, cultural and commercial centre and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The Greater Amman area has a population of 2,842,629 as of 2010. The population of Amman is expected to jump from 2.8 million to almost...
  
  , Jordan
  Jordan
  Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
  
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Publications

• David Burgess-Wise
  David Burgess-Wise
  David Burgess-Wise is a motoring author, enthusiast, and automobile historian. A motoring writer since 1960, he has written some 25 books on motoring history. He also edits the award-winning Aston, journal of the Aston Martin Heritage Trust.-See Also:...
  
   - Automobile Archaeology (Cambridge, England: Patrick Stephens Ltd).
• Derek Roe
  Derek Roe
  Derek Roe is a British archaeologist most famous for his work on the Palaeolithic period.Educated at St Edward's School in Oxford he undertook his National Service with the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Intelligence Corps in Berlin. He went on to study Archaeology and Anthropology at Peterhouse,...
  
   - The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).

Miscellaneous

• Colin Renfrew is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology
  Disney Professorship of Archaeology
  The Disney Professorship of Archaeology, also known as the Disney Chair, is a professorship in the University of Cambridge. It was endowed with a donation of £1,000 by John Disney in 1851, followed by a further £3,500 in a bequest at his death...
  
   in the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
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• June 12 - Film Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...
  
  , featuring fictional 1930s archaeologist Indiana Jones
  Indiana Jones
  Colonel Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., Ph.D. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials...
  
  , is released.