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The year 2013 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Excavations
- May
- Excavations conducted at the Sobibór Museum in Poland unearth an escape tunnel made by victims of the Holocaust in the Sobibor extermination camp.[1]
- Excavation of Portuguese carrack Esmeralda, wrecked off the coast of Oman in 1503, by David Mearns begins.[2]
- Excavation of abandoned Bradford Park Avenue football stadium in England begins.[3]
Exploration
- September - Service tunnel network beneath Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, Italy.
Finds
- February 4 - DNA evidence confirms that bones found in 2012 at the site of Greyfriars, Leicester, are those of King Richard III of England (k. 1485).[4]
- May - Happisburgh footprints, the oldest hominin footprints outside of Africa, dating to more than 800,000 years ago, are discovered on the beach at Happisburgh, Norfolk, England.[5]
- June - Chactún, a Mayan ruin, is discovered in Campeche, Mexico.[6]
- July - A substantial and well-preserved section of the Willington Waggonway, an 18th century wooden railway on Tyneside in England, is found.[7]
- August - A 500-kg bronze statue of Apollo is found by Palestinian fisherman Joudat Ghrab.[8] Dated between the 5th and the 1st century BC, the statue is seized by Hamas officials after briefly appearing on eBay.[8]
Events
- A wreck found off the coast of modern-day Sweden is identified as the Danish flagship Gribshunden (sank 1495).[9]
- Experimental archaeology: Construction of Campus Galli, a replica Carolingian monastic community in Meßkirch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, according to period techniques, begins.
Deaths
- 24 June: Mick Aston, English archaeologist notable for his work with Time Team (b. 1946)[10]
See also
References
- ↑ "Próba ucieczki z obozu zagłady. Odkryli nieznany tunel w Sobiborze". Wiadomości lokalne. Gazeta Wyborcza. 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
- ↑ Mearns, David L.; Parham, David; Frohlich, Bruno (2016-03-14). "A Portuguese East Indiaman from the 1502–1503 Fleet of Vasco da Gama off Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman: an interim report". International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 46 (2): 1–21. doi:10.1111/1095-9270.12175. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
- ↑ "Breaking Ground: Art, Archaeology and Mythology". Manchester: National Football Museum. 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
- ↑ "Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are king". BBC News. 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- ↑ Ghosh, Pallab (2014-02-07). "Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk". BBC News. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
- ↑ Gannon, Megan (2013-06-20). "Ruins of Maya City Discovered in Remote Jungle". Live Science. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ↑ Bell, Dominique. "The Willington Waggonway Research Programme". Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
- 1 2 "'Priceless' bronze statue of Greek god Apollo found in Gaza Strip". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2014-02-11. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
- ↑ Warming, Rolf (2015-07-01). "Gribshunden: Significance and Preliminary Investigations". Society for Combat Archaeology. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
- ↑ Dyer, Christopher (25 June 2013). "Mick Aston obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
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