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1964 in archaeology Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ...

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Seibal (sometimes rendered as Ceibal) is a ruined site of the Maya civilization located in the south of the Peten department of Guatemala. ... Jump to: navigation, search Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Et-Tell is an archaeological site in Israel that is popularly thought to be the Biblical city of Ai. ... Snaketown is the name of a former Native American settlement in Arizonas lower Gila River valley in the United States of America. ... Ebla was an ancient city located in northern Syria, about 55 km southwest of Aleppo. ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Università della Sapienza) is the most ancient university of Rome, Italy. ... Paolo Matthiae is Professor of Archaeology and History of Art of the Ancient Near East in the University La Sapienza of Rome; he has been Director of the Ebla Expedition since 1963, and has published many articles and books about Ebla, and about the History of Art of Mesopotamia and...

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Archaeology and Its Public: A Voegelinian Perspective (4248 words)
The view of archaeology as being a detached, objective science of the past is slowly giving way to a broader perspective, driven in part by the need to make archaeology more relevant to a broader non-professional audience.
This is in part because the issue of meaning and sacred places involves a dimension that is usually ignored by professionals who are often ill-equipped to deal with questions that lie outside the scope of their disciplinary training.
Similarly archaeology is conceived of as a science for studying buried artifactual remains and constructing a fairly objective view of past cultures and events.
1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5023 words)
Sanders 376 US 1 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
February 26 - John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in his Columbus, Ohio apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring his left inner ear, and prompting him (later that week) to withdraw from the race for the Senate nomination.
November 3 - The Bolivian government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro is overthrown by a military rebellion led by General Alfredo Ovando Candía, commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
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