2022 in archaeology
Finds
January
- 25 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of an intact 2,000-year-old blue glass bowl with a trim rim and a vertical stripe pattern in the Dutch city of Nijmegen in Netherlands.[1][2]
February
- 1 – Velia excavation reported the discovery of two well-preserved bronze Greek helmets with Etruscan design, the remains of a painted brick wall and vases at the site of Velia in Italy.[3][4]
- 2 – Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of a 1.5-million-year-old complete hominini vertebra. The fossilized bone belonging to a juvenile between the ages of 6-12 is estimated as the oldest evidence of ancient hominini in the Middle East.[5][6]
- 3 –
- Archaeologists announced the discovery of the remains of a woolly mammoth, reindeer, rhinoceros, bison, wolf and hyena in a cave system during the building of a new town named Sherford in Devon (England).[7][8]
- Australian researchers claimed to have discovered the wreck of Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour off Newport, Rhode Island in North America where she was sunk in 1778.[9]
- 14 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of 1,000-1,200 years-old six mummified children in Peru, thought to have been sacrificed, probably to accompany a dead elite man to the afterlife.[10]
- 24 – Discovery of a large, well-preserved Roman mosaic, believed to date from A.D. 175–225 was announced by the researchers from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) in Southwark district in London.[11][12]
March
- 1 – A 19th-century drontheim fishing vessel was uncovered by storms on the beach at Portrush in Northern Ireland.[13]
- 8 – Archaeologists conducted radiocarbon analyses and announced the dating of a curved hunting bow discovered in 2021. The bow was probably 460 years old, and its origin ranged from 1506 to 1660.[14][15]
- 9 – Discovery of wreck of Endurance (1912 ship) under the Antarctic ice was announced.[16]
- 15 – Discovery of a 1,500-year-old silver extraction site and a lead-lined coffin inside a stone mausoleum in England was announced.[17][18]
- 19 – Five well-decorated ancient tombs found at the Saqqara necropolis were put on display in Cairo. They date back to the Old Kingdom of Egypt, around 2700BC to 2200BC.[19]
April
- 5 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of the 4.000 years-old two Bronze Age axe heads on land owned by a farmer in Wiltshire in England.[20]
Deaths
- January 2 – Richard Leakey, Kenyan palaeoanthropologist (b. 1944)[21]
- February 4 – Neil Faulkner, British archaeologist (b. 1958)[22]
- February 19 – Sergei Beletzkiy, Russian archaeologist and historian (b. 1953)[23]
See also
References
- Magazine, Smithsonian; McGreevy, Nora. "2,000-Year-Old Roman Bowl Discovered Intact in the Netherlands". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- "Archaeologists find nearly 2,000-year-old point-blank scale in Nijmegen: 'Masterpiece with museum value'". myprivacy.dpgmedia.nl. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- D'emilio, Frances. "Ancient helmets, temple ruins found at dig in southern Italy". phys.org. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- "Ancient helmets found alongside temple ruins during dig in Italy". belfasttelegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- Jeffay, Nathan. "World 1st: Hope for paralyzed as Israeli lab spinal cords restore mice mobility". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
- "Prehistoric Israel: 1.5 million-year-old bone shines light on migration". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
- "'Megafauna' archaeological finds discovered in Devon, with a mammoth, rhino and wolf among amazing remains uncovered at Sherford". sherford.org. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- "Woolly mammoth and rhino among Ice Age animals discovered in Devon cave". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- Marris, Sharon (2022-02-03). "Australian experts say they have found Cook's Endeavour but US scientists say 'not so fast'". Sky News. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
- "Ancient mummies of children, likely sacrificed, unearthed in Peru". France 24. 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- Goldstein, Caroline (2022-02-24). "Digging in the Shadows of London's Shard, Archaeologists Discovered a 'Once-in-a-Lifetime Find': a Shockingly Intact Roman Mosaic". Artnet News. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- Jeevan Ravindran. "London's largest Roman mosaic in 50 years discovered by archaeologists". CNN. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- McBride, Mike (2022-03-04). "Storms uncover 200-year-old boat on Portrush beach". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
- "Historic Wooden Hunting Bow Found in Lake Clark (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- "460-Year-Old Hunting Bow Discovered Underwater in Alaska's Lake Clark National Park". Outdoor Life. 2022-03-11. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- "Endurance is Found". Endurance22. 2022-03-09. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
- "Excavation unearths a 1500-year-old mystery". Press Office. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- "1,500-Year-Old Silver Site Uncovered in England - Archaeology Magazine". www.archaeology.org. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- "Egypt displays recently discovered ancient tombs in Saqqara". ABC News. 2022-03-20. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
- "Bronze Age axe heads found in Wiltshire field". BBC News. 2022-04-05. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- "Renowned Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey dies aged 77". France 24. 2022-01-02. Archived from the original on 2022-01-02. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
- "Neil Faulkner obituary". Archaeology Worldwide. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
- Умер изучавший Псков археолог Российской академии наук Сергей Белецкий (in Russian)
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