2022 in archaeology

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]

• 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]

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