1992 in archaeology

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The year 1992 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Excavations
2 Finds
3 Publications
4 Deaths

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