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 Marseilles.
Finds
- June: Villa Mendo Roman Villa at Rio Alto, Portugal.
- 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
- ↑ Johns, Dr Catherine; Johns, Catherine (2013). The Jewellery Of Roman Britain: Celtic and Classical Traditions. Routledge. p. 217. ISBN 9781135851118.
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