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

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.
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.
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

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)

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References

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

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

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