Overview of the events of 2003 in archaeology
Explorations
Excavations
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.[2]
- July - Russian monitor Russalka (1867) located by sonar in the Gulf of Finland.[3][4]
- 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.[5]
- 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.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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. "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
Deaths
See also
References