1992 in archaeology

The year 1992 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Events

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

Excavations

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

Finds

• June
  • Villa Mendo Roman Villa at Rio Alto, Portugal.
  • Longyou Caves in China.
• 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.[1]
• 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.

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

1. Johns, Catherine (2013). The Jewellery Of Roman Britain: Celtic and Classical Traditions. Routledge. p. 217. ISBN 9781135851118.