The year 1997 in archaeology involved some significant events.
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- Barry Cunliffe – The Ancient Celts (Oxford University Press)
- Sarah Milledge Nelson (ed.) – The Archaeology of Northeast China: Beyond the Great Wall (London: Routledge).
- Sarah Milledge Nelson – Gender in Archaeology: Analyzing Power and Prestige (Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press).
- Bernard Sergent – Genèse de l'Inde (Paris: Payot).
- R. E. Witt – Isis in the Ancient World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
- 14th january: finding of the probable rests of the Aristotle's Lyceum in Athens by some greek archaeologists.
- March: Pioneer Helmet found in a warrior grave at Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England.
- April: Roman coin hoard found at Patching, West Sussex, England.[1]
- Herto Man, remains of a 160,000- to 154,000-year-old human, discovered in Ethiopia.[2]
- Recovery of Homo skeletal remains at least 350,000 years old from the Sima de los Huesos (Pit of Bones) at the archaeological site of Atapuerca in northern Spain begins.
- Megalosaurus and Cetiosaurus footprints are identified at Ardley, Oxfordshire, by Christopher Jackson.
- Scauri shipwreck of c.400–450 is found off Pantelleria.
- Fragment of a fifth Incantada sculpture in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.
- Terpsichore statuette in Dodona, Greece.