Theyear 1992 inarchaeology involved some significant events.

• Pointe-à-Callière Museum founded inOld Montreal,Quebec.

• Tel Dan.
• Excavations begin atKuşaklı (Sarissa).
• "Jules Verne" shipwrecks atMarseille.

• June
  • Villa Mendo Roman Villa atRio Alto, Portugal.
  • Longyou Caves in China.
• 19 August: TheHydraulis of Dion, an ancient Greek waterpipe organ is unearthed inDion, northernGreece.
• 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 bymetal detectorist Eric Lawes inSuffolk, England.^[1]
• El Fuerte de Samaipata nearSamaipata, Bolivia excavated by Dr. Albert Meyers of theUniversity of Bonn.
• Stone tools 2.6 million years old are first found atGona in theAfar Depression ofEthiopia.
• First fragments ofArdipithecus ramidus found.

• 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.

• 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)

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• 1992 in science
• 1990s in archaeology

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