Reynolds, A. C., Betancourt, J. L., Quade, J., Patchett, P. J., Dean, J. S., and Stein, J. "87Sr/86Sr sourcing of ponderosa pine used in Anasazi Great House construction at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico." Journal of Archaeological Science32 pp. 1061–1075.[6]
August -
Large Stone Structure, remains of a large 10th to 9th century BCE public building in East Jerusalem, believed by the excavator to be perhaps remains of the Palace of
David.[10]
Megiddo church, remains of a 3rd-century Christian church, the earliest found in the country, near
Tel Megiddo in northern Israel.[11]
A bone figurine of a bird 2 cm long is found at Lingjing in
Henan province of China; it is subsequently dated at 13,500 BCE, making it 8,500 years older than any other known sculpture from east Asia.[12]
April 18 - The bodies of thirty British
Royal Navy officers and sailors discovered in
2000 on
Nelson's Island are buried in a naval ceremony in
Alexandria,
Egypt. Dating from the
Battle of the Nile (1798) and another battle three years later, only one body, that of Commander James Russell, can be positively identified.