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Explorations
- First expedition to Sub Marine Explorer in the Pearl Islands by James P. Delgado.
Excavations
- March – Part of the podium of the Temple of Apollo in Mdina, Malta is discovered and subsequently excavated.[1]
Finds
- February – Remains of oldest known European early modern humans at this time found in Peștera cu Oase, Romania.
- May 1 – Horncastle boar's head, an early 7th-century Anglo-Saxon ornament, probably part of a helmet crest, discovered in the eastern English town of Horncastle by a metal detectorist.
- May 3 – Amesbury Archer, a Bronze Age burial found near Stonehenge in England.
- June – Newport Ship (medieval) in south-east Wales.
- October – Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc in mid-Wales.
- 3,500-year-old human remains found in the Citadel of Damascus.
- Mask of la Roche-Cotard (Mousterian) found beside the Loire in France.
Publications
Events
- Brief reappearance and study of Seaton Carew Wreck.
- Ciampate del Diavolo (early hominid footprints in Italy) come to scientific attention.
- December 29 – 70,000 excavated artifacts from the Ōfune Site in Japan are damaged or destroyed when fire breaks out in an exhibition room.[2]
Deaths
- April 28 – Gordon Willey, American archaeologist (born 1913)[3]
- June 26 – Barbara Adams, English Egyptologist (born 1945)[4]
See also
- Syria - ongoing excavations.
References
- Testa, Michael (19 March 2002). "New find at Mdina most important so far in old capital". Times of Malta. Archived from the original on 13 April 2016.
- "最古級の漆製品焼失で視察／関係者が北海道南茅部町に" [Officials in Minamikayabe, Hokkaido say oldest lacquerware was burned]. Shikoku News (in Japanese). 2002-12-30. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- "Obituary: Gordon Willey". theguardian.com. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- "Obituary: Barbara Adams". The Guardian. 13 July 2002. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
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