1992 in archaeology

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.
 * 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.

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)