Excavations

Dmanisi historic site, Georgia.^[1]
November–December - Scar boat burial, Orkney.^[2]
November 4 - An archaeological expedition is launched in France, eventually resulting in the discovery of a mass grave and identification of the body of the novelist Alain-Fournier, 77 years after his death as Lieutenant Henri-Alban Fournier in World War I.^[3]

Finds

July - Rock art at Cosquer cave in Cap Morgiou, France.^[4]
September 19 - Ötzi the Iceman.^[5]
September 25 - First fragment of Dmanisi hominins in Georgia.^[6]
September - Fourteen Ancient Egyptian Boats (First Dynasty) identified at Abydos.^[7]
Cuetlajuchitlán discovered in Mexico.^[8]
Remains of monks at Mor Gabriel Monastery in Turkey killed by Timur's troops in 1401 are found in caves underneath the monastery.^[9]
Cores and samples from a roof in Pueblo Bonito are dated to ca. A.D. 1082.

Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey (ed.) - Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-16505-3
Richard Hodges - Wall-to-Wall History: the Story of Roystone Grange. London: Duckworth ISBN 0-7156-2342-7
Charles D. Trombold and David W. Wagner - "Analysis of Prehistoric Roadways in Chaco Canyon Using Remotely Sensed Digital Data." Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-38337-4.
Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn - Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-28147-5.

Archaeologist Colin Renfrew is created a life peer as Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, of Hurlet in the District of Renfrew.