1892 in archaeology

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, 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.
• May 5 - Dorothy Garrod, English Palaeolithic archaeologist of the Near East.

Deaths

• April 15 - Amelia Edwards, English Egyptologist and fiction writer