The year 2004 in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below.

Explorations

• Start of the three-year Bombay Before the British project.^[1][2]

Publications

Finds

• Salcombe B underwater archaeological site identified from Bronze age finds discovered on the Salcombe Cannon Wreck site.
• Swash Channel Wreck (early 17th century) discovered off Poole Harbour.^[3]

Awards

Miscellaneous

• New calibration curve for dendrochronology, INTCAL04, internationally ratified for dates back to 26,000 BP.
• Albert Goodyear of the University of South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology announces that radiocarbon dating at the Topper Site dated to approximately 50,000 years ago, or approximately 37,000 years before the Clovis culture.
• Graeme Barker elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
• Brief reappearance and further study of Seaton Carew Wreck.

Births

Deaths

References

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