The year 2011 in archaeology
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- January 11 – An article in Journal of Archaeological Science reveals the discovery of the earliest known winemaking equipment in caves in Armenia, from 6,000 years BP.[9]
- February 11 – Marine archaeologists from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announce the discovery of artefacts from the whaling ship Two Brothers which sank off the French Frigate Shoals atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on February 11, 1823, under Captain George Pollard, Jr.[10][11]
- March 10 – English archaeologists report finding one of the earliest complete Neolithic pots in the country on a housing development in Didcot. It is thought to be about 5,500 years old.[12]
- March 25 – The discovery of the Jordan Lead Codices, a series of codices from a cave in Jordan, is announced. The books, which reportedly contain early Christian symbols are purportedly around 2,000 years old. The authenticity of the codices is doubted.[13][14]
- May 17 – Discovery of the wrecks of SS Etruria and M.F. Merrick in Lake Huron.[15][16]
- Summer – An Anglo-Saxon pectoral cross is discovered during excavation of the Trumpington bed burial near Cambridge, England.
- October – Excavators from Museum of London Archaeology first uncover remains of the Elizabethan Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch.[17][18][19]
- October 19 – The discovery of the Port an Eilean Mhòir boat burial, the United Kingdom mainland's first fully intact Viking ship burial site, at Ardnamurchan in the western Scottish Highlands, is announced.[20]
- December – The discovery of the wreck of World War I British J class submarine HMS J6 (sunk in a friendly fire incident in October 1918) by divers off the Northumberland Coast of England is announced.[21]
- Maritime archaeology
Hills, Catherine (2011-07-30). "Philip Rahtz". The Guardian. London. p. 37.