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Excavations
- Grinnell College project at Mayapan
- Excavations at Cival directed by Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli
- French archaeologists begin excavating Ulug Depe, an ancient bronze-age agricultural town in Turkmenistan
Publications
- Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas (ed.), Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past. Routledge, 194 pages, ISBN 0-415-23278-3
- Barry Cunliffe, Facing the Ocean: the Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC to AD 1500. Oxford University Press, hardcover, 600 pages, ISBN 0-19-924019-1
- Thomas W. Neumann and Robert M. Sanford, Practicing Archaeology: a Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology. Rowman and Littlefield Pub Inc, August, 2001, hardcover, 450 pages, ISBN 0-7591-0094-2
- Thomas W. Neumann and Robert M. Sanford, Cultural Resources Archaeology: an Introduction. Rowman and Littlefield Pub Inc, December, 2001, trade paperback, 256 pages, ISBN 0-7591-0095-0
- Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks, Theatre/Archaeology: Disciplinary Dialogues. Routledge, 240 pages, ISBN 0-415-19458-X
- Donald B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, hardcover, 3 vols, ISBN 0-19-510234-7
Finds
- July 20: Wreck of HMS Hood (sunk 1941) found by David Mearns in the Denmark Strait.
- November: Ringlemere Cup (Bronze Age) found by metal-detectorist Cliff Bradshaw near Dover, England.
- First fossil fragments of the hominid 'Toumaï' (Sahelanthropus tchadensis; 7 million years BP) found by a team led by Michel Brunet in Chad.[1][2]
Miscellaneous
- March: Buddhas of Bamyan dynamited by Taliban.
Births
Deaths
- February 6: Geoffrey Bibby, British archaeologist who discovered Dilmun.
- March 29: Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer; co-discoverer of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows
- July 8: Jia Lanpo, Chinese prehistorian, buried at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China
- September 26: Peter J. Reynolds, British experimental archaeologist
- K. C. Chang, Taiwanese archaeologist; Yale and Harvard professor, author The Archaeology of Ancient China
References
- ↑ Beauvilain, Alain (2006-10-05). "Toumaï : Histoire des Sciences et Histoire d'Hommes". TchadActuel. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ↑ Beauvilain, Alain. "Toumaï". Retrieved 2012-03-15.
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