1992 in archaeology
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The year 1992 in archaeology involved some significant events.
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Excavations
- Tel Dan.
- Excavations begin at Kuşaklı (Sarissa).
- "Jules Verne" shipwrecks at Marseilles.
Finds
- 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.
- June: Villa Mendo Roman Villa at Rio Alto, Portugal.
- 16 November: Hoxne Hoard discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Suffolk, England.
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
- Ignacio Bernal, Mexican archaeologist
- 30 March: Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist
- 22 February: Oscar Broneer
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