2006 in archaeology

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The year 2006 in archaeology includes the following significant events.

Explorations

Tomb of the Roaring Lions
Luhansk sacrificial site
Ancient pre-Inca pet cemetery dated to the Chiribaya culture found south of Lima, Peru
Ancient pre-Inca tombs complex dated to Middle Sican culture discovered under the Huaca Loro pyramid in Peru; 12 ceremonial tumi knives found

K925 - the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
Steve Burrow - The Tomb-builders in Wales 4000-3000 BC.
Andrea Carandini - Remo e Romolo: Dai rioni dei Quiriti alla città dei Romani (775/750 - 700/675 a.C. circa) and La leggenda di Roma.
Gwyn Davies - Roman Siege Works.
Jürg Eggler & Othmar Keel - Corpus der Siegel-Amulette aus Jordanien: vom Neolithikum bis zur Perserzeit.
Lars Fogelin - Archaeology of Early Buddhism.
Matthew Johnson - Ideas of Landscape.
Chris Stringer - Homo Britannicus: the Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain.

December
- Little Horwood Hoard of Iron Age gold staters from Buckinghamshire, England.
- River Boyne shipwreck of 1530s found off Drogheda in Ireland.
The Irish bog psalter yielded the fragments of a prayer book found in a bog in Ireland, where it has been buried for approximately 1200 years.

The Kharosti scrolls, the oldest collection of Buddhist manuscripts in the world, are radiocarbon-dated by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). The group confirms the initial dating of the Senior manuscripts to 130-250 CE and the Schøyen manuscripts to between the 1st and 5th centuries CE.
30th anniversary of the founding of the modern Korean Archaeological Society.

December 1 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist and McGill University professor.