1999 in archaeology

none March 2012 1999 archaeology science The year 1999 in archaeology involved some significant events. Excavations Excavations resume at Qatna, in Syria, by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft. Osiris Shaft in the Giza pyramid complex of Egypt, by Zahi Hawass.https://ancientneareast.org/2012/02/18/the-osiris-shaft-a-giza-cenotaph/ The Osiris Shaft: a Giza cenotaph kmtsesh 2012-02-18 Ancient Near East: Just the Facts en 2019-10-24 Wide-scope vertical and horizontal excavation of world's oldest wet-rice (rice paddy) agricultural feature, c. 800 BC, at Okhyeon site, Ulsan, Korea. Excavation at Tal-i Malyan in Anshan (Iran). Excavations at Hyde Abbey, Winchester, England. Excavations begin at Tursiannotko in Pirkkala, Finland. September – First season of excavations at the Bronze Age Tell es-Sakan in Palestine, jointly led by Pierre de Miroschedji and Moain Sadeq.Miroschedji Pierre de Sadek Moain 2000 Tell es-Sakan, un site du Bronze ancien découvert dans la région de Gaza (information) https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_2000_num_144_1_16103 Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres fr 144 1 127 10.3406/crai.2000.16103 0065-0536 September – First season of excavations at the Bronze Age Tell el-Ajjul in Palestine jointly led by Peter M. Fischer and Moain Sadeq. The site was last excavated in the 1930s.Fischer Peter M. Sadeq Moain 2000 Tell El-ʿajjul 1999: A Joint Palestinian-Swedish Field Project: First Season Preliminary Report https://www.jstor.org/stable/23783495 Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant 10 211 23783495 Exploration Start of Scotland's First Settlers project in Inner Sound of Hebrides. Finds March 16 – Mummified Children of Llullaillaco found on the volcanic peak of Llullaillaco in South America. May 24–28 – Wreck of Israeli submarine INS Dakar (sunk 1968) located in eastern Mediterranean Sea. July 16 – Spillings Hoard of silver found on Gotland.Reistad Helena Silverskörd. Vi har tre månader på oss att se världens största vikingatida silverskatt – sedan åker den tillbaka till Gotland Silver harvest. We have three months to see it – after that it goes back to Gotland http://www.dn.se/arkiv/stockholm/silverskord-vi-har-tre-manader-pa-oss-att-se-varldens https://web.archive.org/web/20160125160951/http://www.dn.se/arkiv/stockholm/silverskord-vi-har-tre-manader-pa-oss-att-se-varldens dead January 25, 2016 Dagens Nyheter 2002-06-14 Swedish 2015-04-18 July 22 – A frozen and mummified body, later named Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi ("Long Ago Person Found"), is found in a Canadian glacier. Nebra sky disk found by illegal metal detectorists in Saxony-Anhalt; if its Bronze Age dating is accurate, it is the oldest physical depiction of the cosmos known from anywhere in the world.UNESCO Memory of the World one of the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth century. https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/nebra-sky-disc Nebra Sky Disc June 2013 2026-01-05 Shipwreck, originally thought to be Carpathia, but later identified as Hamburg-America Line's Isis (sunk 1936), located in eastern Atlantic Ocean.Cussler Clive Delgado, James P. Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks Vancouver Douglas & McIntyre 2004 85 9781553650713 Wreck of British submarine M1 1917 6 (sunk 1925) in the English Channel.Innes 2002 McCartney Lost Patrols: Submarine Wrecks of the English Channel Penzance Periscope 9781904381044 Shipwreck thought to be William Kidd's pirate ship Adventure Galley (scuttled 1698) located off Madagascar by Barry Clifford.December 2025 Marausa wreck (Roman) located off Sicily.Mignone Pablo 2013-05-20 "El camino hacia el Santuario Incaico del Llullaillaco": el complejo arqueológico más alto del mundo analizado a través de un SIG http://www.polipapers.upv.es/index.php/var/article/view/4356 Virtual Archaeology Review 4 8 145–154 10.4995/var.2013.4356 free 10251/138783 free 105 mummies are discovered in the first four tombs to be opened in the Valley of the Golden Mummies in Egypt. John and Deborah Darnell of the Theban Desert Road Survey announce discovery of inscriptions from around 1800 BCE at Wadi el-Hol, Egypt, in a partly phonetic Proto-Sinaitic alphabet.Baker Dorie http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v28.n16/story4.html Finding sheds new light on the alphabet's origins Yale Bulletin and Calendar December 13, 1999 – January 17, 2000 28 16 2012-03-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20121019210853/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v28.n16/story4.html October 19, 2012 dead mdy-allAlphabet Originated Centuries Earlier Than Previously Thought https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/11/991122153642.htm Science Daily 1999-11-22 2012-03-16 Venus of Tan-Tan (300,000–500,000 BP) found in Morocco.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3047383.stm 'Oldest sculpture' found in Morocco BBC News May 23, 2003 8 June 2017 Ġebel ġol-Baħar, possibly a submerged megalithic temple, is discovered off the coast of Malta. Submerged ruins of Heracleion in Egypt are located and explored by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio after a 5-year search.http://www.geeksvip.com/g/21-underwater-discoveries-that-will-make-your-jaw-drop/3/?ipp=1 You won't believe what they found under the sea! Geeks VIP 2015-07-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20180814232615/http://www.geeksvip.com/g/21-underwater-discoveries-that-will-make-your-jaw-drop/3/?ipp=1 2018-08-14 Site of Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in The Fens of eastern England first located. Croatian Apoxyomenos raised from the sea.http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=2258&title=The%20Athlete%20of%20Croatia:%20a%20bronze%20youth%20from%20thesea&eventType=Colloquium The Athlete of Croatia: a bronze youth from the sea The British Museum 8 June 2017 Discovery of Wezmeh Cave in Iran Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent Science 353 6298 499–503 Farnaz Broushaki 2016Sci...353..499B 2016 10.1126/science.aaf7943 27417496 5113750 Publications Penelope M. Allison (ed.) – The Archaeology of Household Activities. Victor Buchli – An Archaeology of Socialism. John Carman and Anthony Harding (ed.) – Ancient Warfare: archaeological perspectives. Chris Gosden and Jon Hather (ed.) – The Prehistory of Food: appetites for change. Matthew Johnson – Archaeological Theory: an introduction. Thomas Stöllner – Der prähistorische Salzbergbau am Dürrnberg bei Hallein: Forschungsgeschichte, Forschungsstand, Forschungsanliegen, Bd 1. July–August issue of Archaeology asks: "Is Schliemann Mask a Fake?". Some scholars, noting that the "Mask of Agamemnon" is significantly different from the others found at the site, contend that Schliemann had some of the features added to make the mask appear more heroic to viewers of his day. Deaths March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphs (born 1922)Yury Valentinovich Knorozov - Russian linguist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yury-Valentinovich-Knorozov Encyclopedia Britannica 21 November 2017 en May 30 – Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, English early medieval archaeologist (born 1933)Welch Martin 1999-06-23 Obituary: Sonia Chadwick Hawkes https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sonia-chadwick-hawkes-1102025.html 2023-01-28 The Independent en June 14 – Arvid Andrén, Swedish scholar of classical terracotta (born 1902) July 16 – Barri Jones, British Roman archaeologist (born 1936)Birley Anthony Barri Jones https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/23/guardianobituaries1 The Guardian 17 April 2017 22 July 1999 References 30em Category:Archaeology by year Archaeology Category:1990s in archaeology