1892 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1892.

Explorations

• August - Survey of Coldrum Long Barrow in south east England.

Excavations

• Excavations to uncover the fortifications of Thebes, Greece, are begun by lawyer Eustratios Kalopais.

Finds

• Glastonbury Lake Village discovered by Arthur Bulleid in the Somerset Levels of England.
• Gough's Cave discovered in Cheddar Gorge (Somerset), England.
• "Venus of Brassempouy" discovered in France.
• The second of the Caryatids of Eleusis discovered in Eleusis, Greece.

Miscellaneous

• The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is founded.
• Sir William Ridgeway is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.

Births

• April 14 - V. Gordon Childe, Australian-born prehistorian (died 1957).
• May 5 - Dorothy Garrod, English Palaeolithic archaeologist of the Near East (died 1968).

Deaths

• April 15 - Amelia Edwards, English Egyptologist and fiction writer (born 1831)

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