2013 in archaeology

none 2013 archaeology science The year 2013 in archaeology involved some significant events. Excavations May Excavations conducted at the Sobibór Museum in Poland unearth an escape tunnel made by victims of the Holocaust in the Sobibor extermination camp.http://wyborcza.pl/1,126565,14041114,Proba_ucieczki_z_obozu_zaglady__Odkryli_nieznany_tunel.html Próba ucieczki z obozu zagłady. Odkryli nieznany tunel w Sobiborze Gazeta Wyborcza Wiadomości lokalne 2013-06-05 2013-06-11 Excavation of Portuguese carrack Esmeralda, wrecked off the coast of Oman in 1503, by David Mearns begins.Mearns David L. David Parham Bruno Frohlich A Portuguese East Indiaman from the 1502–1503 Fleet of Vasco da Gama off Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman: an interim report International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 2016-03-14 46 2 331–350 10.1111/1095-9270.12175 http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/23370/13/Mearns_et_al-2016-International_Journal_of_Nautical_Archaeology-1.pdf free 2016IJNAr..45..331M Excavation of abandoned Bradford Park Avenue football stadium in England begins.Breaking Ground: Art, Archaeology and Mythology http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/whatson/breaking-ground-art-archaeology-and-mythology 2017 National Football Museum Manchester 2018-01-16 Excavation and recording of the large-scale military terrain model of the Battle of Messines (1917) on Cannock Chase in England is conducted.M. Brown K. Nichol Messines Model, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire: Excavation and Survey 2013 No Man's Land for Staffordshire County Council 2014 Excavations of the Roman site at Bloomberg London, beginning in 2010 and including discovery of the Bloomberg tablets, end. Excavations conducted in Kaarina find ruins of Ravattula Church, the oldest church building in Finland. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-6813431 Suomen vanhin kirkko löytyi Leppänen, Mari 2013-09-04 Yle 2020-11-24 Salah Hussein A. Al-Houdalieh of Al-Quds University leads a five-week excavation at the Byzantine Church of Khirbet et-Tireh in Palestine.Al-Houdalieh Salah H. 2014 The Byzantine Church of Khirbet et-Tireh Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.2.3.0188 en 2 3 196 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.2.3.0188 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.2.3.0188 free Exploration September - Service tunnel network beneath Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, Italy. Finds February 4 - DNA evidence confirms that bones found in 2012 at the site of Greyfriars, Leicester, are those of King Richard III of England (k. 1485).Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are king https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882 BBC News 2013-02-04 2013-02-04 April - Burial of 5 Celtic warriors at Buchères in France discovered.Celtic Burials Discovered in France https://archaeology.org/news/2013/04/16/130416-france-iron-age-celts/ Archaeology Archaeological Institute of America 2013-04-16 2023-10-21 May - Happisburgh footprints, the oldest hominin footprints outside of Africa, dating to more than 800,000 years ago, are discovered on the beach at Happisburgh, Norfolk, England.Ghosh Pallab Pallab Ghosh Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26025763 BBC News 2014-02-07 2014-02-07 June - Chactún, a Mayan ruin, is discovered in Campeche, Mexico.http://www.livescience.com/37620-maya-city-discovered-in-mexico.html Live Science Ruins of Maya City Discovered in Remote Jungle Megan Gannon 2013-06-20 2018-02-23 July A substantial and well-preserved section of the Willington Waggonway, an 18th-century wooden railway on Tyneside in England, is found.Bell Dominique The Willington Waggonway Research Programme 31 January 2017 http://blog.twmuseums.org.uk/the-willington-waggonway-research-programme/ Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 2018-07-15 The unexpected discovery of Pacific walrus bones among 19th-century human burials in St Pancras Old Church graveyard in London (in advance of High Speed 1 railway works) is reported.Why Was A Walrus Found Buried Next To 8 Human Bodies In King's Cross? Alex Foch Londonist https://londonist.com/london/secret/why-was-a-walrus-found-buried-next-to-a-human-body-beneath-king-s-cross 2013-08-13 2020-11-14 August - A 500-kg bronze statue of Apollo is found by Palestinian fisherman Joudat Ghrab.https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/10/priceless-bronze-statue-apollo-gaza-strip 'Priceless' bronze statue of Greek god Apollo found in Gaza Strip The Guardian London 2014-02-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20140211112826/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/10/priceless-bronze-statue-apollo-gaza-strip 2014-02-11 dead Dated between the 5th and the 1st century BC, the statue is seized by Hamas officials after briefly appearing on eBay. September - Wreck of Lake freighter Scotiadoc (sank 1953) located in Lake Superior.http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/deepest-great-lakes-shipwreck-found-near-thunder-bay-1.1928781 'Deepest' Great Lakes shipwreck found near Thunder Bay: Scotiadoc found largely intact near Trowbridge Island CBC News 2013-10-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20131008202954/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/deepest-great-lakes-shipwreck-found-near-thunder-bay-1.1928781 2013-10-08 2020-12-17 live November - The Seaton Down Hoard of 22,888 Roman coins is found by metal detectorists in Devon, England.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/26/roman-coin-hoard-clinton-devon-estates Roman coin hoard, one of the largest found in UK, unearthed by builder Press Association The Guardian London 2014-09-26 2019-05-28 Press Association A grave and first remains of what will be identified as the oldest human burial in Africa – a 3-year old named Mtoto by archaeologists – from 78,000 years BP are located in Kenya.Earliest known human burial in Africa https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03457-8 María Martinón-Torres etal Nature 593 95–100 2021 7857 10.1038/s41586-021-03457-8 33953416 2021Natur.593...95M 10072/413039 233871256 free Wreck found in Nelson's Dockyard, Antigua, subsequently thought to be French ship Beaumont (1762).Excitement over wooden shipwreck found in Antigua's seabed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-57878969 2021-10-27 BBC News 2021-07-25 Gemma Handy A draft of the Olive Branch Petition found in the attic of the Morris-Jumel Mansion among papers that had been donated in the early 20th century.Barry Rebecca Rego An Intern Saved a Museum by Finding This Revolutionary War Treasure in the Attic https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/found-attic-rare-document-revolutionary-war-saved-museum-brink-financial-ruin-180957411/ 2024-11-12 Smithsonian Magazine enLetter Tied to Fight for Independence Is Found in Museum's Attic Barron James https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/nyregion/letter-tied-to-fight-for-independence-is-found-in-museums-attic.html The New York Times 2014-01-01 Events A wreck found off the coast of modern-day Sweden is identified as the Danish flagship Gribshunden (sank 1495).http://combatarchaeology.org/gribshunden-significance-and-preliminary-investigations/ Gribshunden: Significance and Preliminary Investigations Warming Rolf Society for Combat Archaeology 2015-07-01 2015-08-21 Experimental archaeology: Construction of Campus Galli, a replica Carolingian monastic community in Meßkirch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, according to period techniques, begins. Deaths 6 June: Malcolm Todd, English archaeologist of the Roman Empire (b. 1939) 24 June: Mick Aston, English archaeologist notable for his work with Time Team (b. 1946)Dyer Christopher Christopher Dyer Mick Aston obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jun/25/mick-aston-archaeologist-time-team The Guardian London 12 March 2017 25 June 2013 See also List of years in archaeology References 2 Category:Archaeology by year Archaeology Category:2010s in archaeology