1972 in Archaeology - Excavations

Excavations

• National Institute of Anthropology and History excavations at Maya site of Coba begin under direction of Carlos Navarrete.
• Tell Abu Hureyra, in Syria.
• Varna necropolis, in Bulgaria.
• At Mesa Verde National Park, the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project is completed, with excavation of three cliff dwellings (Long House, Mug House, and Step House), including a survey of Wetherill Mesa and excavation of selected mesa-top sites (begun in 1959).
• A geographer and an aerial photographer studying the Campeche region of the Yucatan peninsula prove that the Maya practiced intensive agriculture in raised, narrow, rectangular plots that they built above the low-lying, seasonally flooded land bordering along rivers.
• Excavations at Skara Brae under D. V. Clarke begin.