2003 in archaeology

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Explorations

• Start of Stonehenge Riverside Project (continues to 2008).

Excavations

• Start of Dungarvan Valley Caves Project in Ireland.

Finds

• April - First British cave art discovered at Creswell Crags.
• July - Russian monitor Russalka (1867) located by sonar in the Gulf of Finland.
• Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell.
• Iron Age gold coin hoard at Henley-on-Thames.

Publications

• Wayne D. Cocroft and Roger J. C. Thomas - Cold War: building for nuclear confrontation 1946-1989.
• Christopher Dyer - "The archaeology of medieval small towns". Medieval Archaeology 47 pp. 85–114.
• Adrienne Mayor - Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world.
• Colin Renfrew - Figuring It Out: What are we? Where do we come from? – The parallel visions of artists and archaeologists.
• Ruth M. Van Dyke and Susan E. Alcock (ed.) - Archaeologies of Memory.

Miscellaneous

• November 10 - Official opening of the Department of First World War Archaeology in the Institute for the Archaeological Heritage of the Flemish Community (IAP) at Ypres.

See also

• List of years in archaeology