Start of Stonehenge Riverside Project (continues to 2008).
Start of Dungarvan Valley Caves Project in Ireland.
April - First British cave art discovered at Creswell Crags.
July - Russian monitor Russalka (1867) located by sonar in the Gulf of Finland.
Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell.
Iron Age gold coin hoard at Henley-on-Thames.
Wayne D. Cocroft and Roger J. C. Thomas - Cold War: building for nuclear confrontation 1946-1989.
Dyer, Christopher. "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.
November 10 - Official opening of the Department of First World War Archaeology in the Institute for the Archaeological Heritage of the Flemish Community (IAP) at Ypres.
Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory group formed.
The fake "ancient Egyptian" Amarna Princess statue, actually made by Shaun Greenhalgh, is sold to Bolton Museum in England.
January 22 - Mary Chubb, English archaeologist and author; worked in Egypt and the Near East (b. 1903)
July 30 - Mendel L. Peterson, American underwater archaeologist (b. 1918)
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