The year 2006 in archaeology includes the following significant events.
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Explorations
editExcavations
edit- KV63 - the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.[2]
- Ancient pre-Inca pet cemetery dated to the Chiribaya culture found south of Lima, Peru.[3]
- Ancient pre-Inca tombs complex dated to Middle Sican culture discovered under the Huaca Loro pyramid in Peru; 12 ceremonial tumi knives found.[4]
- The Jewish cemetery, Lucena (Andalusia), the largest such cemetery excavated in Spain, is discovered during construction of the city's southern ring road and excavated.
- Portions of Timișoara Fortress in Romania.
Finds
edit- July - The Faddan More Psalter, a devotional book, is found in a peat bog in Ireland, where it has been buried for approximately 1200 years.[5]
- December
- Little Horwood Hoard of Iron Age gold staters from Buckinghamshire, England.[6]
- River Boyne shipwreck of 1530s found off Drogheda in Ireland.[7]
- Inscriptions in an early form of Linear Elamite discovered at Jiroft in Iran.
- Roman sarcophagus found during work at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, well outside the walls of Londinium.[8]
- Defences from the Siege of Leith (1560) discovered in Pilrig, Edinburgh, Scotland.[9]
- Wreck of Type A Kō-hyōteki-class midget submarine, sunk in the 1942 attack on Sydney Harbour, discovered off Sydney's Northern Beaches.
Publications
edit- Steve Burrow - The Tomb-builders in Wales 4000-3000 BC ISBN 9780720005684
- Andrea Carandini - Remo e Romolo: Dai rioni dei Quiriti alla città dei Romani (775/750 - 700/675 a.C. circa) ISBN 9788806180652 and La leggenda di Roma ISBN 9788804634973
- Gwyn Davies - Roman Siege Works ISBN 9780752428970
- Jürg Eggler & Othmar Keel - Corpus der Siegel-Amulette aus Jordanien: vom Neolithikum bis zur Perserzeit ISBN 9783525530146
- Lars Fogelin - Archaeology of Early Buddhism ISBN 9780759107502
- Matthew Johnson - Ideas of Landscape ISBN 9781405178334
- Chris Stringer - Homo Britannicus: the Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain ISBN 9780713997958
Awards
edit- June - Barry Cunliffe knighted.[10]
Events
edit- October - British historian Alex Woolf publishes arguments that the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu was located around the Moray Firth region, further north in Scotland than the previous consensus.[11]
- The Kharosti scrolls, the oldest collection of Buddhist manuscripts in the world, are radiocarbon-dated by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). The group confirms the initial dating of the Senior manuscripts to 130-250 CE and the Schøyen manuscripts to between the 1st and 5th centuries CE.
Deaths
edit- June 6 - Leslie Alcock, English archaeologist (b. 1925)[12]
- August 2 - Richard Avent, British archaeologist, conservationist and civil servant (b. 1948)[13]
- December 1 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist and McGill University professor (b. 1937)[14]
See also
edit- List of years in archaeology
- Karnak
- Pompeii
- Mayapan - recent excavations, near cenote wells.
References
edit- ^ McMahon, Barbara (18 June 2006). "Italian 'tomb raider' reveals burial chamber". The Observer. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ^ "Final coffin opened in Egyptian chamber". msnbc.com. 28 June 2006. Archived from the original on April 5, 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ "Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid". news.nationalgeographic.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ^ "Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid". news.nationalgeographic.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ^ "1200-year-old prayer book discovered in bog". www.smh.com.au. 26 July 2006. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
- ^ "Record ID: BUC-5D0980 - Iron Age coin hoard". The Portable Antiquities Scheme. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
- ^ "What lies beneath". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
- ^ "Ancient body prompts new theories". BBC News. 2006-12-01. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ^ "Significant Clue to Leith's History Found in Pilrig Park". EdinburghGuide.com. Alstead Media. 2006-12-13. Archived from the original on 2019-07-06. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- ^ "Birthday honours: list in full". The Independent. 17 June 2006. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ Woolf, Alex (2006). "Dén Nechtain, Fortriu and the geography of the Picts". The Scottish Historical Review. 85 (2): 182–201. doi:10.3366/shr.2007.0029. S2CID 161978981.
- ^ Lane, Alan (23 June 2006). "Leslie Alcock". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ Wakelin, Peter (2006-08-25). "Obituary: Richard Avent". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
- ^ "Antiquity Journal". www.antiquity.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2017.