The year 1992 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

• Tel Dan.
• Excavations begin at Ku akl (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

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