1979 in archaeology

The year 1979 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Tillya Tepe surveyed by a Soviet-Afghan mission of archaeologists led by Victor Sarianidi.

July - Fossil hominid footprints found at Laetoli, Tanzania, by Mary Leakey.
Wreck of found off Western Australia.
Wreck of found on the Goodwin Sands.
Wreck of English ship Swan (1641) found off the west coast of Scotland.
Wreck of French-built English ship found in The Solent.
Burial site related to the 1918 execution of the Romanov family at Yekaterinburg, by Alexander Avdonin.
Roman fort at Elginhaugh discovered by air-photography.
Black rat bones from about the fifth century AD reported as found in York, the first pre-medieval record in England.
The prehistoric site of Isernia La Pineta discovered during the construction of a road link of Strada statale 85.

Aubrey Burl - Prehistoric Avebury.
J. M. Coles and A. F. Harding - The Bronze Age in Europe: an introduction to the prehistory of Europe, c.2000-700 BC.
Kenneth Hudson - World Industrial Archaeology.
A. L. F. Rivet and Colin Smith - The Place-names of Roman Britain.Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History series founded by David Brown, James Campbell, and Sonia Chadwick Hawkes.

June 2 - Protesters opposed to the building of civic offices on the site of Viking excavations in Wood Quay, Dublin, occupy the area.