2001 in archaeology

Excavations

• Grinnell College project at Mayapan
• Excavations at Cival directed by Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli
• French archaeologists begin excavating Ulug Depe, an ancient bronze-age agricultural town in Turkmenistan

Publications

• Barry Cunliffe, Facing the Ocean: the Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC to AD 1500. Oxford University Press, hardcover, 600 pages, ISBN 0-19-924019-1
• Thomas W. Neumann and Robert M. Sanford, Practicing Archaeology: a Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology. Rowman and Littlefield Pub Inc, August, 2001, hardcover, 450 pages, ISBN 0-7591-0094-2
• Thomas W. Neumann and Robert M. Sanford, Cultural Resources Archaeology: an Introduction. Rowman and Littlefield Pub Inc, December, 2001, trade paperback, 256 pages, ISBN 0-7591-0095-0
• Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks, Theatre/Archaeology: Disciplinary Dialogues. Routledge, 240 pages, ISBN 0-415-19458-X
• Donald B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, hardcover, 3 vols, ISBN 0-19-510234-7

Finds

• July 20: Wreck of HMS Hood (sunk 1941) found by David Mearns in the Denmark Strait.
• November: Ringlemere Cup (Bronze Age) found by metal-detectorist Cliff Bradshaw near Dover, England.
• First fossil fragments of the hominid 'Toumaï' (Sahelanthropus tchadensis; 7 million years BP) found by a team led by Michel Brunet in Chad.^[1][2]

Miscellaneous

• March: Buddhas of Bamyan dynamited by Taliban.

Births

Deaths

• March 29: Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer; co-discoverer of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows
• July 8: Jia Lanpo, Chinese prehistorian, buried at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China
• September 26: Peter J. Reynolds, British experimental archaeologist
• K. C. Chang, Taiwanese archaeologist; Yale and Harvard professor, author The Archaeology of Ancient China

References