2007 in archaeology

none May 2020 2007 archaeology science This page lists major events of 2007 in archaeology. Excavations South China Sea shipwrecks. River Boyne shipwreck (1530s) off Drogheda in Ireland. Large-scale excavation of Buckton Castle in the north west of England begins under the direction of Brian Grimsditch of the University of Manchester Archaeology Unit. The dig concluded in 2010.Grimsditch Brian Buckton Castle and the Castles of North West England 57–5, 135 2012 University of Salford Archaeological Monographs volume 2 and the Archaeology of Tameside volume 9 Centre for Applied Archaeology, School of the Built Environment, University of Salford 978-0-9565947-2-3 Nevell Michael Nevell Richard Excavations at Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome begin.Rome's Mausoleum of Augustus reopens after 100 years of neglect Abigail Blasi https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/rome-mausoleum-augustus-reopens-march-890342 inews 2021-02-28 2021-03-01 Finds 6 January: Vale of York Hoard of 617 mostly Anglo-Saxon silver coins and 65 other items of precious metal deposited by Vikings soon after 927 CE is discovered near Harrogate in the north of EnglandBBC A History of the World Object: Vale of York Hoard https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/Wx-OE7vcQRm4gI8fVlOpuw 22 December 2017 (reported 19 July).Viking treasure trove unearthed https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6906054.stm BBC News 22 December 2017 19 July 2007 15 January: A Jeulmun Pottery Period pit burial containing the c. 2000 BC skeletons of two humans in a death embrace at the Ando-ri Site in Yeosu, South Korea.http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ekp/news/200703-Ando01-Kwangju.htm Early Korea Project NewsSeptember 2017 InternetArchiveBot yeshttp://news.media.daum.net/culture/art/200703/27/yonhap/v16190759.html Daum and Yeonhap KoreanSeptember 2017 InternetArchiveBot yes 16 January: A fossilized human skull found at Pestera cu Oase, Romania, is dated to be about 35,000 years old and described to have features of mixed origin, both from modern Homo sapiens and older branches of the genus Homo.European skull's evolving story https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6268777.stm BBC News 16 January 2007 17 February 2011 13 February: Excavation of stone percussive tools made by chimpanzees on a site in the Ivory Coast used by chimps 4,300 years BP is announced.Ancient chimps 'used stone tools' https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6356773.stm BBC News 13 February 2007 16 June 2016 April: First discoveries in River Wear at Elvet Bridge in Durham, England.River Wear excavation yields historical treasures 2014-06-19 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-27810231 BBC 2018-12-15 7 May: A team of Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great, ruler of Judea (1st century BC).Urquhart Conal Herod's tomb found after 35-year search https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/09/israel.travelnews The Guardian 22 December 2017 9 May 2007 3 August: Mexican archaeologists announce discovery of what is believed to be the tomb of Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl.newsday.com (Associated Press)May 2026 medicmedic Summer: Asthall hoard of mostly 15th century gold angel coins found in Oxfordshire, England.http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2010/100912.html Ashmolean acquires a hoard of angels 9 December 2010 Media Ashmolean Museum Oxford 11 December 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120927170003/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2010/100912.html 27 September 2012 September: Rehov beehives, Israel.First Beehives in Ancient Near East Discovered https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070904114558.htm ScienceDaily 22 December 2017 en 1 September: Discovery under a private ground in Marcianise of what is believed to be the rests of the Roman castrum that probably originated the town.Corriere di Caserta 2/09/2007 13 December: Discovery of what is believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a pirate ship abandoned by Captain William Kidd in the 17th century, by divers in shallow waters off Catalina Island, Dominican Republic reported.2007-12-13 Captain Kidd Ship Found Yahoo News https://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071213/sc_livescience/captainkiddshipfound 2007-12-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20071215091704/http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071213/sc_livescience/captainkiddshipfound 15 December 2007 live2007-12-13 Captain Kidd's Shipwreck Of 1699 Discovered Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071213162036.htm 2007-12-13Captain Kidd (1645–1701) PortCities London http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConFactFile.3/Captain-Kidd.html 2007-12-13 25 October 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071025045410/http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConFactFile.3/Captain-Kidd.html dead Gozo Phoenician shipwreck. Divers locate a wreck off the Norfolk coast of England which in 2022 will be disclosed to be Gloucester 1660 6 which ran aground on a sandbank in 1682 with the future King James II of England on board.Shipwreck The Gloucester hailed most important since Mary Rose https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61734192 2022-06-10 BBC News 2022-06-10 Spartia temple, Greece. Late Iron Age high-status warrior grave found in rescue dig at Chichester in southern England.https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-iron-age-warrior Found: A Mysterious Warrior From Late Iron Age England Isaac Schultz 2019-07-30 Atlas Obscura 2020-01-29 Early prehistoric artefacts in Misliya Cave, Israel. Paleolithic tools from Jwalapuram in India (published).https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1141564 10.1126/science.1141564 Middle Paleolithic Assemblages from the Indian Subcontinent Before and After the Toba Super-Eruption 2007 Petraglia Michael Korisettar Ravi Boivin Nicole Clarkson Christopher Ditchfield Peter Jones Sacha Koshy Jinu Lahr Marta Mirazón Oppenheimer Clive Pyle David Roberts Richard Schwenninger Jean-Luc Arnold Lee White Kevin Science 317 5834 114–116 17615356 2007Sci...317..114P 20380351 subscription 10072/412769 free A carving of a mammoth estimated to be 13,000 years old, is found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, England.Ancient drawing of mammoth found in Cheddar caves https://phys.org/news/2007-08-ancient-mammoth-cheddar-caves.html 2023-02-12 phys.org en Dornier Do 215 light bomber off Waddenzee in the Netherlands.FlyPast, No. 315, October 2007, pp. 62–63. Publications David W. Anthony - The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World.The Horse, the Wheel, and Language https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8488.html 15 August 2010 9780691148182 22 December 2017 en Anthony David W. Princeton University Press Dan Hicks - The Garden of the World: an Historical Archaeology of Sugar Landscapes in the Eastern Caribbean.Hicks Dan Beaudry Mary C. The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies 2010 OUP Oxford 9780199218714 689 https://books.google.com/books?id=soqnmu9-rnMC&pg=PA689 en Ruth M. Van Dyke - The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place.Lekson Stephen H. A New Deal for Chaco Canyon? (Van Dyke's The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place) Current Anthropology 50 4 579–580 10.1086/600032 1 August 2009 142135600 Samuel M. Wilson - The Archaeology of the Caribbean.Wilson Samuel M. The Archaeology of the Caribbean https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/the-archaeology-of-the-caribbean/212D55A223C077011153D72ABB27D0B8 Cambridge Core 22 December 2017 en 10.1017/CBO9780511816505 2007 9780511816505 Events 13 September: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognises indigenous rights to the protection of their cultures. 30 October: Researchers backdate the male remains known as the "Red Lady of Paviland" (discovered in 1823) by 4,000 years to 29,000 years BP, making it the earliest known human burial in Britain.Age of earliest human burial in Britain pinpointed http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_releases_for_journalists/earliest_burial.html University of Oxford 30 October 2007 17 March 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110809095612/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_releases_for_journalists/earliest_burial.html 9 August 2011 Report on excavation of Kinsey Cave in North Yorkshire finds evidence of the presence of bears and lynx in early medieval England.Taylor T. et al. (2007). Revised report on English Heritage (HEEP) funded threat-led 715 fieldwork at Kinsey Cave, High Scar, above Giggleswick Scar, Giggleswick, North Yorkshire (SD 80408 716 65709), SAM No.13248. Archive Report to English Heritage, UK. Deaths 20 February: Kenneth Steer, British archaeologist and British Army officer (b. 1913)Kenneth Steer obituary https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/kenneth-steer-1-692401 www.scotsman.com 27 March 2007 22 December 2017 en 19 July: Alanah Woody, American archaeologist (b. 1956)Virginia City News http://virginiacitynews.com/rock-art-expert-alanah-woody-dead-at-p165-96.htm virginiacitynews.com 22 December 2017 20 October: Stine Rossel, Danish archaeologist (b. 1975)Kerner Susanne Dann Rachael Bangsgaard Pernille Climate and Ancient Societies 2015 Museum Tusculanum Press 9788763541992 https://books.google.com/books?id=W8s_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 en 24 December: Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, American archaeologist (b. 1910)Holley Joe Pompeian Historian Wilhelmina Jashemski https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/13/AR2008011302806.html The Washington Post 22 December 2017 14 January 2008 References 30em Category:Archaeology by year Archaeology Category:2000s in archaeology