2000 in archaeology

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The year 2000 in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below.

[edit] Excavations

International excavations of the Middle Stone Age occupation cave sites at Pinnacle Point near Mossel Bay in South Africa begin.^[1]

Wayne D. Cocroft - Dangerous Energy: the archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture. London: English Heritage. ISBN 1-85074-718-0
James Cuno - Who Owns Antiquity? – museums and the battle over our ancient heritage. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13712-4
A. F. Harding - European Societies in the Bronze Age. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36477-9
Richard Hodges - Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-2965-4
Adrienne Mayor - The First Fossil Hunters: paleontology in Greek and Roman times. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05863-6
Mark Redknap - Vikings in Wales: an archaeological quest. Cardiff: National Museums & Galleries of Wales. ISBN 0-7200-0486-1
Michael Stratton and Barrie Trinder - Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology. London: E & FN Spon. ISBN 0-419-24680-0
Richard J. A. Talbert (ed.) - Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03169-X

On Nelson's Island off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, Italian archaeologist Dr. Paolo Gallo uncovers a group of graves dating from the 1798 Battle of the Nile. The graves contain the remains of British Royal Navy officers, sailors, and marines, as well as women and children.
Shang dynasty road discovered at Anyang Aero Sports School near Yinxu
Girl of the Uchter Moor in Germany.
Milton Keynes Hoard in England.

August 8: Wreck of Confederate submarine CSS H. L. Hunley is raised in South Carolina.
September - Egyptian archeologists announce the discovery of more than 100 mummies - some from 500 BC and most from Roman time - in the Valley of the Golden Mummies.

^ Marean, C.W. et al. (2004). "Paleoanthropological investigations of Middle Stone Age sites at Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay (South Africa): archaeology and hominid remains from the 2000 field season". Paleoanthropology 1: 14–83.