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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