1972 in archaeology 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Importance and applicability Archaeology is the study of human nature and attempts to illuminate the question of what it means to be human. ...

Excavations

• INAH excavations at Maya site of Coba begin under direction of Carlos Navarrete.
• Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria

The Maya are people of southern Mexico and northern Central America (Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and El Salvador) with some 3,000 years of history. ... Coba (Cobá in the Spanish language) is a large ruined city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. ... Tell Abu Hureyra (tell is arabic for mount) was a site of an ancient settlement in the northern Levant or western Mesopotamia. ...

Births

Deaths

• 1 October: Louis Leakey

October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). ... Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (August 7, 1903–October 1, 1972) was a British archaeologist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. ...

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1971 in archaeology
• 1973 in archaeology