2001 in archaeology

2001 in archaeology

Explorations

Excavations

* Grinnell College project at Mayapan.
* Excavations at Cival directed by Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli.

Publications

Finds

*Ringlemere Cup found by metal-detectorist Cliff Bradshaw near Dover, England.

Awards

Miscellaneous

Births

*

Deaths

* 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
* K.C. Chang, Taiwanese archaeologist; Yale and Harvard professor, author "The Archaeology of Ancient China"


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