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The year 1976 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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