Yeşilova Höyük is a höyük ( tell ) in the Bornova district of İzmir , Turkey , and is the oldest known prehistoric human settlement in the area of İzmir. It was occupied continuously from roughly 6500 to 4000 BCE , and was covered with silt afterwards.
24-524: Discovered in 2003 , the site has been explored since 2005 by a team under the direction of Associate Professor Zafer Derin of Ege University . By 2005, important new light had been shed on the Neolithic - Chalcolithic phases of İzmir's metropolitan area in particular and of Turkey's Aegean Region in general. A drilled sample section disclosed a first cultural layer associated with the late Roman –early Byzantine period, and still more importantly, allowed
48-791: A Celtic vessel with inscriptions relating to Hadrian's Wall . July - Russian monitor Russalka (1867) located by sonar in the Gulf of Finland . August - Tse-whit-zen village discovered on the Washington coast during construction work. Autumn–December - Prittlewell royal Anglo-Saxon burial near Southend-on-Sea in England, the grave, dated to about 580 AD, of a high-status man, perhaps Saexa (brother to Sæberht of Essex ), buried with objects including Christian symbols. Boscombe Bowmen 's shared grave of around 2300 BCE discovered in southern England. Cirebon shipwreck (early 10th century) in
72-665: A re-excavation of one of the Aubrey Holes within the Stonehenge bowl. The excavation was covered by Time Team and by Nova and National Geographic . Residencies for six visual artists were arranged by Artists in Archaeology, to explore connections between archaeological processes and artistic practices. In 2008, and again in 2009, the team excavated the remains of a henge beside the river, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of Stonehenge. The discovery attracted media coverage and
96-430: A temporary reconstruction of the timber circle in the nearby village of Upavon . Over 20 researchers and 170 students and volunteers were involved in excavations around Durrington Walls and investigations into the Stonehenge landscape. Among other things, new dating suggested that the sarsen phase of Stonehenge was contemporary with Durrington Walls at around 2640–2480 BC. In late summer of 2007, four weeks of fieldwork
120-547: Is different from Wikidata Short description matches Wikidata Stonehenge Riverside Project The Stonehenge Riverside Project was a major Arts and Humanities Research Council -funded archaeological research study of the development of the Stonehenge landscape in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain . In particular, the project examined the relationship between the stones and surrounding monuments and features, including
144-1068: The Java Sea , containing a large amount of Chinese Yue ware and important evidence of the Maritime Silk Road . Dutch-built fluyt Swan located in Baltic Sea . Roman base silver coin hoard at Chalgrove in Oxfordshire , England, including one of Domitianus, briefly ruler of the Gallic Empire . Iron Age gold coin hoard at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England. Publications [ edit ] Wayne D. Cocroft and Roger J. C. Thomas - Cold War: building for nuclear confrontation 1946-1989 . Christopher Dyer . "The archaeology of medieval small towns". Medieval Archaeology . 47 : 85–114. Adrienne Mayor - Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: biological and chemical warfare in
168-589: The River Avon , Durrington Walls , the Cursus , the Avenue , Woodhenge , burial mounds, and nearby standing stones. The project involved a substantial amount of fieldwork and ran from 2003 to 2009. It found that Stonehenge was built 500 years earlier than previously thought. The monument is believed to have been built to unify the peoples of Britain. It also found a previously unknown stone circle, Bluestonehenge . The project
192-472: The Beaker People Project jointly embarked upon a radiocarbon dating programme of the surviving skeletal remains to establish when Stonehenge was used as a burial space. As a result of this, it is argued that the site began as a cremation cemetery in the early third millennium BC. The research concluded that Stonehenge was built to unify the people of Stone Age Britain. The results were published in
216-959: The Department of First World War Archaeology in the Institute for the Archaeological Heritage of the Flemish Community (IAP) at Ypres . December 26 - The 2003 Bam earthquake devastates the Arg-e Bam in Iran. Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory group formed. The fake "ancient Egyptian" Amarna Princess statue, actually made by Shaun Greenhalgh , is sold to Bolton Museum in England. Deaths [ edit ] January 22 - Mary Chubb , English archaeologist and author; worked in Egypt and
240-624: The Industrial Heritage" (PDF) . ICOMOS . July 2003 . Retrieved 2018-08-28 . ^ Barnes, Bart (28 August 2003). "Smithsonian's Mendel Peterson Dies" . The Washington Post . Retrieved 17 May 2017 . Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2003_in_archaeology&oldid=1230127764 " Categories : Archaeology by year 2003 in science 2003 archaeological discoveries Hidden categories: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list Articles with short description Short description
264-505: The Mermaid" . Archaeology . 61 (5) . Retrieved 2012-01-08 . ^ "Southend burial site 'UK's answer to Tutankhamun' " . BBC News . 2019-05-09 . Retrieved 2019-05-09 . ^ "The Cirebon shipwreck" . UNESCO. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11 . Retrieved 2017-09-10 . ^ Moorhead, Sam (July 2020). "The face that didn't fit". BBC History : 63. ^ "The Nizhny Tagil Charter for
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#1732873497126288-912: The Near East (b. 1903 ) July 30 - Mendel L. Peterson , American underwater archaeologist (b. 1918 ) See also [ edit ] List of years in archaeology References [ edit ] ^ neolithique02 (2012-09-27). "Jade axeheads, standing stones and the world of the spirits" . The Neolithic Portal . Retrieved 2022-10-29 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link ) ^ Jackson, Ralph (2012). "The Ilam pan". In Breeze, David J. (ed.). The first souvenirs : enamelled vessels from Hadrian's Wall . CWAAS extra series, no. 37. Carlisle: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. pp. 41–60. ISBN 9781873124581 . ^ Pravda 31 July 2003. ^ Delgado, James P. (September–October 2008). "The Wreck of
312-621: The ancient world . Colin Renfrew - Figuring It Out: What are we? Where do we come from? – The parallel visions of artists and archaeologists . Ruth M. Van Dyke and Susan E. Alcock (ed.) - Archaeologies of Memory . Events [ edit ] July 17 - The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage adopts the Nizhny Tagil Charter for the Industrial Heritage. November 10 - Official opening of
336-476: The dead, whilst Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, two miles away, were monuments to the living and more recently deceased. The area immediately inside Stonehenge Bowl has been excavated several times throughout history, but to the east around Durrington Walls, there have only been two major studies conducted within recent times. The first was between 1926 and 1929 when Maud Cunnington excavated around Woodhenge, discovering several Neolithic and Bronze Age features to
360-472: The early Bronze Age are discovered to date but after the full abandonment of the settlement, part of the mound was used as a cemetery. Habitation in the area of the mound was resumed during the late Roman-early Byzantine period, but was sparser in form and shorter in duration. In June 2010, the Municipality of Bornova district in İzmir organised a national architectural competition for a visitor center within
384-1591: The excavation site. The competition was won by architects Evren Başbuğ (Studio Evren Başbuğ Architects), and Umut Başbuğ. 38°26′29″N 27°12′50″E / 38.4414°N 27.2139°E / 38.4414; 27.2139 2003 in archaeology Overview of the events of 2003 in archaeology List of years in archaeology ( table ) … 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 … In science 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +... Explorations [ edit ] Start of Stonehenge Riverside Project (continues to 2008). Identification of Neolithic sources of jadeite on Monte Viso and Monte Beigua in Italy. Excavations [ edit ] Start of Ness of Brodgar excavation in Scotland. Start of Dungarvan Valley Caves Project in Ireland . Full excavation of High Pasture Cave on Skye . Finds [ edit ] April - First British cave art discovered at Creswell Crags . June - Staffordshire Moorlands Pan found in England,
408-455: The henge, to the north and south. 2004 marked the start of annual excavations in the Stonehenge landscape. Trenches were dug on the bank of the River Avon next to Durrington Walls, and at the eastern entrance to the henge. On this occasion various finds suggesting Neolithic occupation were found around the area. More fieldwork was carried out in the summer of 2005. Excavations were made around
432-499: The land east of Durrington Walls near the river, and north west outside the west gate. A large amount of digging was done on the eastern banks of the henge, and inside the walls to expose the southernmost timber circle discovered in 1967. A great deal of work was also carried out 2 miles east, around a fallen sarsen stone known locally as the Bulford Stone. Channel 4's archaeological television programme Time Team attended and built
456-498: The name "Bluehenge" or " Bluestonehenge ". Stonehenge is effectively Britain's largest third millennium BC cemetery, containing 52 cremation burials and many other fragments of both burnt and unburnt bone. Many of the cremation deposits contained more than one individual, so that an estimate of the number of people buried here during that period may be between 150 and 240. In 2007 the Stonehenge Riverside Project and
480-568: The outlines of two additional layers, which date from the Calcolithic and Neolithic Ages, to be made out. The first settlement in the site, at a depth of 4 meters under the surface level, had started during the Neolithic and reached its zenith towards the end of the same age, and then continued through the Chalcolithic period. Thus, Yeşilova Höyük saw uninterrupted settlement spanning at least fifteen hundred years of prehistory. No artifacts dating from
504-529: The processes of uncovering and interpreting this location. In the late summer of 2008, a further four weeks of excavations were carried out. The year's excavation focused largely upon the Avenue , largely re-excavating work by Richard Atkinson . More work was carried out upon the eastern end of the Stonehenge Cursus , Long Barrow 42 at the eastern terminal of the Cursus, the field to the west of Stonehenge, and
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#1732873497126528-441: The south. Later, when the nearby A345 was improved and routed through Durrington Walls in 1967, two timber circles were discovered within the henge. Also discovered were quantities of animal bones and associated Neolithic pottery and tools. 2003 fieldwork involved sampling and geophysical surveys of the land around Durrington Walls in preparation for future study. This work helped identify two previously unrecognised entranceways to
552-617: Was carried out by several hundred students and volunteers. Excavations were carried out at the western end of the Cursus; around the southern, western and eastern gates of Durrington Walls; at the site of Cunnington's digs immediately south of Woodhenge; and around another nearby fallen sarsen stone, known locally as the Cuckoo Stone . Geophysical surveys were also carried out across much of the surrounding area and around Stonehenge Bowl. Residencies for six artists and two graduate art student placements were arranged by Artists in Archaeology to record
576-460: Was directed by Mike Parker Pearson ( Sheffield University ), Julian Thomas ( Manchester University ), Colin Richards ( Manchester University ), Kate Welham ( Bournemouth University ), Joshua Pollard ( University of Southampton ), and Chris Tilley ( University College London ). The main aims of the project were to test the hypotheses of earlier studies that Stonehenge was a monument dedicated to
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