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The year 1992 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Events

  • Pointe-à-Callière Museum founded in Old Montreal, Quebec.

Excavations

  • Tel Dan.
  • Excavations begin at Kuşaklı (Sarissa).
  • "Jules Verne" shipwrecks at Marseille.

Finds

  • June
  • Villa Mendo Roman Villa at Rio Alto, Portugal.
  • Longyou Caves in China.
  • 19 August: The Hydraulis of Dion, an ancient Greek water pipe organ is unearthed in Dion, northern Greece.
  • 28 September: Dover Bronze Age Boat, a substantially intact seagoing craft of 1575–1520 BCE, discovered by road construction workers on the south coast of England.
  • 16 November: Hoxne Hoard discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Suffolk, England.
  • El Fuerte de Samaipata near Samaipata, Bolivia excavated by Dr. Albert Meyers of the University of Bonn.
  • Stone tools 2.6 million years old are first found at Gona in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia.
  • First fragments of Ardipithecus ramidus found.

Publications

  • Donald B. Redford – Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times.
  • Nils Ringstedt – Household Economy and Archaeology: some aspects of theory and applications.
  • Lawrence Guy Straus – Iberia Before the Iberians: the Stone Age prehistory of Cantabrian Spain.
  • Barrie Trinder (ed.) – The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Industrial Archaeology.

Deaths

  • 24 January: Ignacio Bernal, Mexican archaeologist (b. 1910)
  • 22 February: Oscar Broneer, Swedish-American archaeologist of Ancient Greece (b. 1894)
  • 30 March: Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1919)
  • 21 April: Nigel Williams, English conservator (b. 1944)

References