Overview of the events of 2003 in archaeology
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 . {{cite web }}
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^ 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 .