The year 1982 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Events Archaeological Museum of Olympia opens in Greece. Eindhoven Museum founded as an archaeological open-air museum in the Netherlands.
Excavations October 11 - Hull of Tudor navy ship Mary Rose raised from the Solent. The Chaco Project ends at Chaco Canyon (begun 1971).
Finds March - Wreck of located in Puerto Deseado on the Atlantic coast of Patagonia. May 12 - Coppergate Helmet found in York, England. NASA's Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TIMS) detects over 200 miles of a precolumbian (900 CE or 1000 CE) road system in Chaco Canyon, as well as walls, buildings and agricultural fields. Uluburun shipwreck discovered.
Publications A. F. Harding (ed.) - Climatic Change in Later Prehistory Richard Hodges - Dark Age Economics: the Origins of Towns and Trade, A.D. 600-1000 Roger Moorey - A Century of Biblical Archaeology
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Deaths September 18 - Pei Wenzhong, founding father of Chinese anthropology, buried at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China (b. 1904). October - Michael J. O'Kelly, Irish archaeologist (b. 1915).
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