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
A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became s ...
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
The Hoxne Hoard ( ) is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth centuries found anywhere within the former Roman Empire. It was found by ...
discovered by
metal detectorist Eric Lawes in
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
, England.
*
El Fuerte de Samaipata
El Fuerte de Samaipata or Fort Samaipata, also known simply as "El Fuerte", is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Florida Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. It is situated in the eastern foothill ...
near
Samaipata, Bolivia excavated by Dr. Albert Meyers of the
University of Bonn.
*
Stone tool
A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric (particularly Stone Ag ...
s 2.6 million years old are first found at
Gona
Gona may refer to:
People
* Gona Budda Reddy
* Gona Ganna Reddy
* Marigona Dragusha, Kosovar model
Places
* Gona, Ethiopia
* Gona, Papua New Guinea
* Gona Barracks
Gona Barracks is a heritage-listed barracks at 3, 7,12, 25 & 26 Gona Parade, ...
in the
Afar Depression
The Afar Triangle (also called the Afar Depression) is a geological depression caused by the Afar Triple Junction, which is part of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. The region has disclosed fossil specimens of the very earliest hominins; tha ...
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
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
)
* 22 February:
Oscar Broneer, Swedish-American archaeologist of Ancient Greece (b.
1894
Events January–March
* January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
)
* 30 March:
Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (b.
1919
Events
January
* January 1
** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...
)
* 21 April:
Nigel Williams, English conservator (b.
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
)
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