Large-scale excavation of Buckton Castle in the north west of England begins under the direction of Brian Grimsditch of the University of Manchester Archaeology Unit. The dig concluded in 2010.[1]
6 January: Vale of York Hoard of 617 mostly Anglo-Saxon silver coins and 65 other items of precious metal deposited by Vikings soon after 927 CE is discovered near Harrogate in the north of England[3] (reported 19 July).[4]
15 January: A Jeulmun Pottery Period pit burial containing the c. 2000 BC skeletons of two humans in a death embrace at the Ando-ri Site in Yeosu, South Korea.[5][6]
1 September: Discovery under a private ground in Marcianise of what is believed to be the rests of the roman castrum that probably originated the town. [14]
Divers locate a wreck off the Norfolk coast of England which in 2022 will be disclosed to be HMS Gloucester (1654) which ran aground on a sandbank in 1682 with the future King James II of England on board.[18]
Dan Hicks - The Garden of the World: an Historical Archaeology of Sugar Landscapes in the Eastern Caribbean.[24]
Ruth M. Van Dyke - The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place.[25]
Samuel M. Wilson - The Archaeology of the Caribbean.[26]
Eventsedit
30 October: Researchers backdate the male remains known as the "Red Lady of Paviland" (discovered in 1823) by 4,000 years to 29,000 years BP, making it the earliest known human burial in Britain.[27]
Report on excavation of Kinsey Cave in North Yorkshire finds evidence of the presence of bears and lynx in early medieval England.[28]
Deathsedit
20 February: Kenneth Steer, British archaeologist and British Army officer (b. 1913)[29]
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^Hicks, Dan; Beaudry, Mary C. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. OUP Oxford. p. 689. ISBN 9780199218714.
^Lekson, Stephen H. (1 August 2009). "A New Deal for Chaco Canyon? (Van Dyke's The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place)". Current Anthropology. 50 (4): 579–580. doi:10.1086/600032. S2CID 142135600.
^Wilson, Samuel M. (2007). The Archaeology of the Caribbean. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511816505. ISBN 9780511816505. Retrieved 22 December 2017. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
^"Age of earliest human burial in Britain pinpointed". University of Oxford. 30 October 2007. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
^Taylor T. et al. (2007). Revised report on English Heritage (HEEP) funded threat-led 715 fieldwork at Kinsey Cave, High Scar, above Giggleswick Scar, Giggleswick, North Yorkshire (SD 80408 716 65709), SAM No.13248. Archive Report to English Heritage, UK.
^"Kenneth Steer obituary". www.scotsman.com. 27 March 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^"Virginia City News". virginiacitynews.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^Kerner, Susanne; Dann, Rachael; Bangsgaard, Pernille (2015). Climate and Ancient Societies. Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 9788763541992.
^Holley, Joe (14 January 2008). "Pompeian Historian Wilhelmina Jashemski". The Washington Post. Retrieved 22 December 2017.