2020 in archaeology
This page lists major events of 2020 in archaeology.
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Excavations
- January 29 – NZR V class steam locomotive no. 127 (1885) is recovered from the Oreti River in New Zealand by the Lumsden Heritage Trust.[1]
- Spring – Mexico and Spain plan to search for the remains of Nuestra Señora de Juncal ("Our Lady of Juncal") ship, which sunk off the coast of Mexico in 1631.[2]
- March – Excavations at the Richborough Castle start to uncover the Roman amphitheatre hidden under a mound here.[3]
- June 27 – Excavation of a Viking ship burial at Gjellestad near Halden in Norway located in 2018 begins.[4]
Finds
- January
- 23 – A cave with paintings of people and animals was discovered about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Mount Catherine, Sinai Peninsula, dates back to the Chalcolithic Period, circa 5th–4th millennium BCE.[5]
- 30 – 16 tombs with about 20 sarcophagi are found at Al-Ghoreifa area in Tuna el-Gebel, Egypt,[6] dating back to the 26th Dynasty.[7]
- February
- 12 – 83 ancient tombs are found in Om al-Khilgan, Dakahlia Governorate, dated back to 4,000 B.C.[8][9]
- 17 – Carvings depicting animals are found at Cave Font Major, Catalonia, dated back to 15,000 years ago.[10]
- 21
- A sarcophagus is discovered in an ancient temple in the Roman Forum, which might belong to Rome's legendary founder, Romulus.[11]
- A lost city is found at Türkmen-Karahöyük, Konya Plain, which might be related to Tarḫuntašša, and its king Hartapu.[12]
- March
- 10 – Ancient capital of the Mayan Kingdom of Sak Tz’i is found at Lacanjá Tzeltal, Chiapas, Mexico.[13][14][15]
- 11 – Discovery of site of railway roundhouse at Birmingham Curzon Street railway station (1838–1966) in England during construction work for High Speed 2 is announced.[16]
- 13
- 16 – Two small stone 'plaquettes' are found in the Leang Bulu Bettue cave, Sulawesi, Indonesia, date to a time between 26,000 and 14,000 years ago.[19]
- 17 – A bone circle of at least 60 mammoths is discovered at Kostenki, Russia, dating back to 25,000 years ago.[20]
- 31
- April
- May
- 11 – Discovery of wreck of USS Nevada (BB-36) off Pearl Harbor is announced.[24]
- 17 – A tomb at Oxyrhynchus, dating back to the 26th Dynasty of Egypt, along with stelae and bronze coins from the Roman era, is discovered.[25]
- 26 – Remains of a 200-year-old English sailing ship are discovered in a coral reef off the coast of Quintana Roo in Mexico.[26]
- 27 – Discovery of a well-preserved Roman mosaic floor in a vineyard at Negrar in the Veneto of Italy is announced.[27]
- 29 – Remains of at least sixty mammoths are found at an airport construction site in Mexico.[28]
- June
- 3 – A 3,000-year-old Maya ceremonial platform almost 1,500 yards (1,400 m) long and 440 yards (400 m) wide has been discovered near the San Pedro River in Tabasco, Mexico.[29]
- 9 – A 6th millennium BC megalithic monument is discovered in Dumat al-Jandal, Saudi Arabia.[30]
- 22 – Discovery of Durrington Shafts, a sequence of 10 m-deep neolithic pits in a 2 km (1.2 mi.)-diameter circle surrounding Durrington Walls within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England, is announced.[31]
Events
- January 9 – A gold bar found in Mexico City in 1981 is confirmed as made of material appropriated during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and presumably abandoned by the Spanish at the time of La Noche Triste in 1520.[32]
- February 22 – 3,900 pre-Columbian copper coins from Guerrero and Michoacán will be returned to Mexico from the United States.[33]
- March 6 – Bones first located in 1885 in the wall of St Mary and St Eanswythe's Church, Folkestone in England are announced as identified as almost certainly those of Anglo Saxon princess Eanswith (died c.640), the earliest identified burial of an English saint.[34]
- May – Staff at Vindolanda Museum by Hadrian's Wall in England sorting material held since 1993 during the shutdown imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom find a leather toy mouse from the auxiliary fort.[35]
Deaths
- February 6 – Wang Jin, Chinese prehistoric archaeologist (b. 1926)
- March 14 – Ofer Bar-Yosef, 82, Israeli Palaeolithic archaeologist (b. 1937)[36]
- March 16 – Pilar Luna, 75, Mexican underwater archaeologist (b. 1944)[37]
- April 8 – Aubrey Burl, 93, British prehistoric archaeologist (b. 1926)[38]
- June 13 – Pepe el Ferreiro, 78, Spanish archaeologist (b. 1942)[39]
See also
- List of years in archaeology
References
- Harding, Evan (2020-01-29). "Rare locomotive pulled from river bank in Northern Southland". Stuff. Fairfax. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- Mexico and Spain to embark on rescue of 17th century vessel El Universal (in English) 19 Feb 2020
- "Richborough Roman amphitheatre dig: 'Once in lifetime' opportunity". BBC. 9 March 2020.
- "First Viking ship excavation in a century begins in Norway". BBC. 2020-06-27. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
- "Cave Covered in Ancient Egyptian Paintings of Donkeys and People Discovered by Accident". Newsweek. 23 January 2020.
- "In photos: Communal tombs for high priests uncovered Upper Egypt". ahram.org. 30 January 2020.
- "Egypt uncovers 20 mummies in vast ancient treasure trove". The Sunday Times. 31 January 2020.
- "83 Pharaonic tombs unearthed in Egypt". Xinhuanet. 12 February 2020.
- "الكشف عن 83 مقبرة أثرية بمنطقة آثار كوم الخلجان بمحافظة الدقهلية". youm7.com (in Arabic). 12 February 2020.
- "Experts Discover a 'Shrine' of 15,000-Year-Old Animal Carvings and Mysterious Symbols in a Spanish Cave". artnet.com. 17 February 2020.
- "Romulus mystery: Experts divided on 'tomb of Rome's founding father'". BBC. 21 February 2020.
- "Archaeologists discover lost city that may have conquered the kingdom of Midas". phys.org. 21 February 2020.
- "Backyard in Mexico yields lost Maya kingdom". Futurity. 10 March 2020.
- "Archaeologists discover lost capital of ancient Maya Kingdom". HeritageDaily - Archaeology News. 2020-03-12. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- "Ancient Maya kingdom unearthed in a backyard in Mexico". phys.org. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- "HS2 work unearths Stephenson-designed railway turntable". BBC News. 2020-03-11. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- Kolnegari, Mahmood; Naserifard, Mohammad; Hazrati, Mandana; Shelomi, Matan (2020). "Squatting (squatter) mantis man: A prehistoric praying mantis petroglyph in Iran". 29 (1). Journal of Orthoptera Research: 41–44. doi:10.3897/jor.29.39400. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - Blomster, Jeffrey P.; Salazar Chávez, Víctor E. (2020). "Origins of the Mesoamerican ballgame: Earliest ballcourt from the highlands found at Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico". 6 (11). Science Advances. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aay6964. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - Langley, Michelle C.; Hakim, Budianto; Oktaviana, Adhi Agus; Basran, Burhan; Sumantri, Iwan; Sulistyarto, Priyatno Hadi; Lebe, Rustan; McGahan, David; Brumm, Adam (2020). "Portable art from Pleistocene Sulawesi". Nature. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0837-6. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - "Oldest Circular Structure Discovered – and It's Made of Mammoth Bones". Haaretz. 17 March 2020.
- "Ancient cultic area for warrior-god uncovered in Iraq". Live Science. 31 March 2020.
- "The new Neolithic site that's been discovered in Blaenau Gwent". msn.com. 31 March 2020.
- "Ancient cave with distinguished engravings depicting scenes of animals discovered in Sinai". ahram.org. 26 April 2020.
- USS Nevada Shipwreck Located.
- "البعثة الإسبانية تكتشف مقبرة أثرية نادرة وعملات برونزية بـ«البهنسا» في المنيا". almasryalyoum.com (in Arabic). 17 May 2020.
- "Descubren restos de un barco inglés que naufragó hace más de 200 años en el sureste de México". www.clarin.com (in Spanish). Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- "Perfectly preserved ancient Roman mosaic floor discovered in Italy". CNN. 2020-05-27. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
- Fox, Alex. "Remains of 60 Mammoths Discovered in Mexico". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
- "Mayans built massive structures thousands of years ago. Researchers found the biggest one yet". NBC News. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
- "6th millennium BC structure discovered in Saudi Arabia". phys.org. 9 June 2020.
- Alberge, Dalya (2020-06-22). "Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- Reuters (2020-01-10). "Mexico City gold was Aztec loot Spanish abandoned as they fled in 1520, tests show". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- Mexico recovers rare 500-year-old coins located in the U.S. El Universal (in English) 22 Feb 2020
- Williams, Sam (2020-03-06). "Remains found in church are those of St Eanswythe, the patron saint of Folkestone". KentOnline. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- Alberge, Dalya (2020-05-17). "Joke or toy? 'Mouse' shows playful side of Romans in Britain". The Observer. London. p. 22. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- "Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter: SALON". eepurl.com.
- Muere la arqueóloga subacuática Pilar Luna Erreguerena (in Spanish)
- "Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter: SALON". eepurl.com.
- Fallece Pepe el Ferreiro
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