1976 in archaeology

The year 1976 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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).
• Excavations at Tell Brak, Syria, are begun by a team from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London (continue until 1981).
• Excavations at Mezhirich, Ukraine, resume, by N. L. Korniets and M. I. Gladkih (continue to 1981).
• Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on Orkney first excavated by Ronald Simison.

Publications

• The Landscape of Towns by Michael Aston and James Bond.
• La Résistance africaine à la Romanisation by Marcel Bénabou.
• The Stone Circles of the British Isles by Aubrey Burl.
• The Mycenaean World by John Chadwick.
• "The integration of historical and archaeological data concerning an historic wreck site, the Kennemerland", by Keith Muckelroy, World Archaeology 7.3 pp 280–289.
• Farming in the Iron Age by Peter J Reynolds.
• Industrial Archeology: a new look at the American heritage by Theodore Anton Sande.

Finds

• Tomb of Fu Hao discovered at Yinxu
• Joya de Cerén, "Pompeii of the Americas"
• Nim Li Punit
• The fourth trove of Qabala treasures
• Fossil animal footprints found at Laetoli, Tanzania.

Miscellaneous

• August 8: Founding of the modern Korean Archaeological Society, in Seoul, South Korea.

Deaths

• July 22: Mortimer Wheeler, archaeologist
• Neil Merton Judd