2002 in archaeology

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Explorations

• First expedition to Sub Marine Explorer in the Pearl Islands by James P. Delgado.

Excavations

• March – Part of the podium of the Temple of Apollo in Mdina, Malta is discovered and subsequently excavated.

Finds

• Mask of la Roche-Cotard.
• 3,500-year-old human remains found in the Citadel of Damascus.
• May: Amesbury Archer, a Bronze Age burial found near Stonehenge in England.
• May 1: Horncastle helmet fragment
• June: Newport ship.
• October: Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc.

Publications

• Thebes tablets

Events

• Brief reappearance and study of Seaton Carew Wreck
• Ciampate del Diavolo (early hominid footprints in Italy) come to scientific attention

Deaths

• April 28 - Gordon Willey, American archaeologist (born 1913)
• June 26 - Barbara Adams, English egyptologist (born 1945)

See also

• Syria - ongoing excavations.