Overview of the events of 2003 in archaeology
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Explorations
Excavations
Finds
- April - First British cave art discovered at Creswell Crags.
- June - Staffordshire Moorlands Pan found in England, a Celtic vessel with inscriptions relating to Hadrian's Wall.[2]
- July - Russian monitor Russalka (1867) located by sonar in the Gulf of Finland.[3][4]
- August - Tse-whit-zen village discovered on the Washington coast during construction work.
- Autumn–December - Prittlewell royal Anglo-Saxon burial near Southend-on-Sea in England, the grave, dated to about 580 AD, of a high-status man, perhaps Saexa (brother to Sæberht of Essex), buried with objects including Christian symbols.[5]
- Boscombe Bowmen's shared grave of around 2300 BCE discovered in southern England.
- Cirebon shipwreck (early 10th century) in the Java Sea, containing a large amount of Chinese Yue ware and important evidence of the Maritime Silk Road.[6]
- Dutch-built fluyt Swan located in Baltic Sea.
- Roman base silver coin hoard at Chalgrove in Oxfordshire, England, including one of Domitianus, briefly ruler of the Gallic Empire.[7]
- Iron Age gold coin hoard at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England.
Publications
- Wayne D. Cocroft and Roger J. C. Thomas - Cold War: building for nuclear confrontation 1946-1989.
- Christopher Dyer. "The archaeology of medieval small towns". Medieval Archaeology. 47: 85–114.
- Adrienne Mayor - Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world.
- Colin Renfrew - Figuring It Out: What are we? Where do we come from? – The parallel visions of artists and archaeologists.
- Ruth M. Van Dyke and Susan E. Alcock (ed.) - Archaeologies of Memory.
Events
Deaths
See also
References
- ^ neolithique02 (2012-09-27). "Jade axeheads, standing stones and the world of the spirits". The Neolithic Portal. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Jackson, Ralph (2012). "The Ilam pan". In Breeze, David J. (ed.). The first souvenirs : enamelled vessels from Hadrian's Wall. CWAAS extra series, no. 37. Carlisle: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. pp. 41–60. ISBN 9781873124581.
- ^ Pravda 31 July 2003.
- ^ Delgado, James P. (September–October 2008). "The Wreck of the Mermaid". Archaeology. 61 (5). Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ "Southend burial site 'UK's answer to Tutankhamun'". BBC News. 2019-05-09. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "The Cirebon shipwreck". UNESCO. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2017-09-10.
- ^ Moorhead, Sam (July 2020). "The face that didn't fit". BBC History: 63.
- ^ "The Nizhny Tagil Charter for the Industrial Heritage" (PDF). ICOMOS. July 2003. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
- ^ Barnes, Bart (28 August 2003). "Smithsonian's Mendel Peterson Dies". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 May 2017.