Overview of the events of 1992 in archaeology
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The year 1992 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Events
- Pointe-à-Callière Museum founded in Old Montreal, Quebec.
Excavations
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.
Births
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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
- Johns, Catherine (2013). The Jewellery of Roman Britain: Celtic and Classical Traditions. Routledge. p. 217. ISBN 9781135851118.