Culture & IdeasThe 1970s

Culture & Ideas in the 1970s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1970s — 6 of them, drawn from 6 nations, running from 1970 to 1979. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
6
Nations
6
Earliest
1970
Latest
1979
Africa
2
Asia
1
Europe
1
North America
1
South America
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Asia

    Kuwait

    A Greek inscription confirms Ikaros

    A Danish archaeological expedition uncovered a forty-four-line Greek inscription on Failaka, settling the identification of the island with the Ikaros of ancient sources.

    Era: Failaka: Dilmun and the Greek Island of Ikaros

    Sources: Ikaros of the Gulf: Failaka Island · Archaeology Magazine (Archaeological Institute of America)

  2. South America

    Chile

    Neruda wins the Nobel Prize

    Pablo Neruda, poet, diplomat and senator, is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, crowning Chile's golden age of letters.

    Era: The Nitrate Age and the Twentieth Century

    Sources: Pablo Neruda · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  3. Africa

    Somalia

    Somali written in Latin script

    Barre's government adopts a Latin-based orthography for the Somali language and launches mass literacy campaigns, a lasting cultural achievement of the early socialist period.

    Era: Independence, Union and the Siad Barre Era

    Sources: Mohamed Siad Barre · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Socialist Somalia: the legacy of Barre's military regime · TRT World

  4. North America

    Jamaica

    Reggae goes global

    Bob Marley and the Wailers bring reggae and the Rastafari message to a worldwide audience, making Jamaica a cultural superpower.

    Era: Independent Jamaica and Global Culture

    Sources: Reggae · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Bob Marley · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  5. Africa

    Tanzania

    Discovery of the Laetoli footprints

    Mary Leakey's team excavates the trail of 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints at Laetoli, confirming early bipedalism and cementing Tanzania's place in human prehistory.

    Era: Cradle of Humankind: Olduvai and Laetoli

    Sources: Laetoli · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Laetoli · Wikipedia, Laetoli Footprints · Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority

  6. Europe

    Croatia

    Plitvice Lakes inscribed by UNESCO

    Plitvice Lakes, Croatia's oldest national park, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 for the ongoing formation of tufa barriers that dam its waters into a chain of lakes and waterfalls, the country's first World Heritage site.

    Era: Independence, the War and the Modern Republic

    Sources: Plitvice Lakes National Park — 45 years on the UNESCO World Heritage List · Plitvice Lakes National Park (Republic of Croatia)