2003 in archaeology

none 2003 archaeology science Explorations Start of Stonehenge Riverside Project (continues to 2008). Identification of Neolithic sources of jadeite on Monte Viso and Monte Beigua in Italy.Jade axeheads, standing stones and the world of the spirits https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146414113 neolithique02 2012-09-27 The Neolithic Portal 2022-10-29 Excavations Start of Ness of Brodgar excavation in Scotland. Start of Dungarvan Valley Caves Project in Ireland. Full excavation of High Pasture Cave on Skye. 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.Jackson Ralph The Ilam pan The first souvenirs : enamelled vessels from Hadrian's Wall Breeze, David J. Carlisle Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 2012 41–60 CWAAS extra series, no. 37 9781873124581 July - Russian monitor Russalka (1867) located by sonar in the Gulf of Finland.Pravda 31 July 2003.James P. Delgado https://archive.archaeology.org/0809/abstracts/mermaid.html The Wreck of the Mermaid Archaeology 61 5 September–October 2008 2012-01-08 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.Southend burial site 'UK's answer to Tutankhamun' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-48203883 BBC News 2019-05-09 2019-05-09 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.The Cirebon shipwreck UNESCO https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/silk-road-themes/underwater-heritage/cirebon-shipwreck 2017-09-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20170911023916/https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/silk-road-themes/underwater-heritage/cirebon-shipwreck 2017-09-11 live 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.Sam Moorhead The face that didn't fit BBC History 63 July 2020 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 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 July 17 - The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage adopts the Nizhny Tagil Charter for the Industrial Heritage.https://www.icomos.org/18thapril/2006/nizhny-tagil-charter-e.pdf The Nizhny Tagil Charter for the Industrial Heritage July 2003 ICOMOS 2018-08-28 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. December 26 - The 2003 Bam earthquake devastates the Arg-e Bam in Iran. December 31 - Alexandria National Museum inaugurated in Egypt. 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)Barnes Bart Smithsonian's Mendel Peterson Dies https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/08/28/smithsonians-mendel-peterson-dies/b7f6e024-7e0f-4580-afc4-35a5970cfe05/ The Washington Post 17 May 2017 28 August 2003 See also List of years in archaeology References Category:Archaeology by year Archaeology Category:2000s in archaeology