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The year 2007 in archaeology
Explorations Excavations Publications - David W. Anthony - The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World.
- Dan Hicks - The Garden of the World: an Historical Archaeology of Sugar Landscapes in the Eastern Caribbean.
- Ruth M. Van Dyke - The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place.
- Samuel M. Wilson - The Archaeology of the Caribbean.
Finds - 15 January: A Jeulmun Pottery Period pit burial containing the c. 2000 BC skeletons of two humans in a death embrace at the Ando-ri Site in Yeosu, South Korea.[1][2]
- 16 January: A fossilized human skull found at Pestera cu Oase, Romania, is dated to be about 35,000 years old and described to have features of mixed origin, both from modern Homo Sapiens and older branches of the Homo genus.[3]
- 19 July: Vale of York hoard, originally known as Harrogate hoard, found in January, reported.
- 3 August: Mexican archaeologists announce discovery of what is believed to be the tomb of Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl.[4]
- Summer: Asthall hoard of mostly 15th century gold angel coins found in Oxfordshire, England.[5]
- Rehov beehives, Israel.
- Spartia temple, Greece.
- A carving of a mammoth estimated to be 13,000 years old, is found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, England.[6]
Awards Miscellaneous - October 30 - Researchers backdate the male remains known as the "Red Lady of Paviland" (discovered in 1823) by 4,000 years to 29,000 years BP, making it the earliest known human burial in Britain.[7]
Deaths See also References no:Arkeologi ret 2007
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