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1892 in archaeology

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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)

References

References

  1. "The scientific work". [[Archaeological Museum of Thebes]].
  2. "The Discovery Service".
  3. "Vere Gordon Childe".
  4. "Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod - British archaeologist".
  5. "Grave of Amelia Edwards, Non Civil Parish - 1439170 - Historic England".
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