1982 in archaeology

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.

  Finds

• May 12 - Coppergate Helmet found in York, England.
• NASA's Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner detects over 200 miles of a precolumbian road system in Chaco Canyon, as well as walls, buildings, and agricultural fields.
• Uluburun shipwreck discovered.
• Wreck of HMS Swift located in Puerto Deseado in Patagonia.

  Publications

• A. F. Harding - 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

  Births

Deaths

• September 18 - Pei Wenzhong, founding father of Chinese anthropology, buried at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.
• October - Michael J. O'Kelly, Irish archaeologist.