2001 in archaeology

This page lists major events of 2001 in archaeology.

Excavations

March 8-May 28: Recovery of the major portions of the 1967 wreck of hydroplane Bluebird K7 and of the body of its driver Donald Campbell from Coniston Water in the Lake District of England.
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.
Israeli archaeologists and anthropologists begin excavating Misliya Cave.
Re-excavation of tomb KV32 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings concludes; it is identified as belonging to queen Tiaa.
Excavation at Wezmeh Cave in Iran under the leadership of Dr. Kamyar Abdi.
First archaeological investigation of the wreck of the Danish warship later identified as Gribshunden in the Baltic Sea.

Innes McCartney begins a survey of German U-boats scuttled off the island of Ireland in the British Operation Deadlight following World War II.

Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas, Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past. Routledge, 194 pages,
Barry Cunliffe, Facing the Ocean: the Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC to AD 1500. Oxford University Press, hardcover, 600 pages,
Thomas W. Neumann and Robert M. Sanford, Practicing Archaeology: a Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology., August, 2001, hardcover, 450 pages,
Thomas W. Neumann and Robert M. Sanford, Cultural Resources Archaeology: an Introduction., December, 2001, trade paperback, 256 pages,
Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks, Theatre/Archaeology|Theatre/Archaeology: Disciplinary Dialogues. Routledge, 240 pages,
Donald B. Redford, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, hardcover, 3 vols,

July 7: Pottery fragments from 12,000 years BP at Zengpiyan cave site in China.
July 20: Wreck of found by David Mearns in the Denmark Strait.
November: Ringlemere Cup found by metal-detectorist Cliff Bradshaw near Dover, England.
First fossil fragments of the hominid 'Toumaï' found by a team led by Michel Brunet in Chad.
The Fiskerton log boat found on the banks of the River Witham near Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, England.
Coin of the short-lived Roman usurper Laelianus in Greenwich Park, England.

January 3: K. C. Chang, Taiwanese archaeologist; Yale and Harvard professor, author The Archaeology of Ancient China
January: Philip A. Barker, British archaeologist and castellologist
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