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2003 in archaeology

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Explorations

  • Start of Stonehenge Riverside Project (continues to 2008).
  • Excavations

  • Start of Dungarvan Valley Caves Project in Ireland.
  • Finds

  • 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.
  • Publications

  • 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.
  • Miscellaneous

  • 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.
  • Deaths

  • 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)
  • References

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