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2015 in archaeology

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This page lists major archaeological events of 2015.

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Explorations

  • September – Start of major excavations at Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in The Fens of eastern England by archaeologists from Cambridge.

    • Excavations

  • April 9–10 – A winter diving expedition on the Franklin expedition ship HMS Erebus, consisting of Parks Canada underwater archaeologists and Royal Canadian Navy divers, commences.

    • Finds

  • January 4 – The discovery of the tomb of Khentakawess III in Abusir is announced.
  • January 27 – Discovery of an extinct Homo bone under Penghu Strait in Taiwan named Penghu 1 is published.

    • Publications

  • January 28 – Nature reports the dating of a modern human skull from Manot cave is the first evidence in support of the Out of Africa theory and shows modern humans living alongside Neanderthals in the Levant.

    • Miscellaneous

  • March 5–8 – The ancient city sites of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq are demolished by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

    • Deaths

  • January 25 – Giancarlo Ligabue, Italian palaeontologist, discoverer of Ligabueino (b. 1931)
  • February 26 – Sheppard Frere, British archaeologist of the Roman Empire (b. 1916)

    • References

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