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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

Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas (ed.), Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past. Routledge, 194 pages, ISBN 0-415-23278-3
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

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]

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February 6: Geoffrey Bibby, British archaeologist who discovered Dilmun.
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