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The year 1976 in archaeology involved some significant events.
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Explorations
Excavations
- The Chaco Project (National Park Service and University of New Mexico) excavates fourteen rooms at Pueblo Alto from 1976 to 1978.
- Hwangnyongsa, a large-scale Buddhist temple of the Korean Three Kingdoms state of Silla dating to AD 553 (excavations continue until 1983).
Publications
- The Mycenaean World by John Chadwick.
Finds
- Tomb of Fu Hao discovered at Yinxu
- Joya de Cerén, "Pompeii of the Americas"
- Nim Li Punit
- The fourth trove of Qabala treasures
Awards
Miscellaneous
- August 8: Founding of the modern Korean Archaeological Society, in Seoul, South Korea.
Births
Deaths
- July 22: Mortimer Wheeler, archaeologist
- Neil Merton Judd
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