1927 in archaeology

none 1927 archaeology science Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1927. Explorations Excavations Large scale excavations begin at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China under Canadian paleoanthropologist Davidson Black with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition begins 3½ years of excavations under Einar Gjerstad. Excavations at Skara Brae begin under V. Gordon Childe (completed in 1930).PLA 1663 HY21NW 12 Skara Brae 21 June 2025 Excavations at Tepe Gawra begin by an American team under Ephraim Avigdor Speiser. Pločnik archaeological site discovered in southern Serbia, with findings of the Vinca culture (5500 BC). Excavations begin at Garðar Cathedral Ruins. Finds Davidson Black's excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China yield a human tooth that he proposed belonged to a new species that he names Sinanthropus pekinensis. Skeleton of Asselar man discovered by Théodore Monod and Wladimir Besnard in the Adrar des Ifoghas. Kents Cavern 4 maxilla found in England. Leonard Woolley's excavations at Ur uncover the Enheduanna calcite disc. "Priest-King" sculpture from the Indus Valley Civilisation found at Mohenjo-daro.https://www.harappa.com/indus/41.html "Priest King," Mohenjo-daro Jonathan Mark Kenoyer Jonathan Mark Kenoyer Harappa.com 2021-06-16 First location of wreckage from the VOC Zuytdorp in Western Australia. Pilot Percy Maitland observes stone wheel-like structures across Syria and Saudi Arabia.Who built thousands of giant stone wheel-like structures in the Middle East? 383–4 William Hartston William Hartston The Bumper Book of Things That Nobody Knows London Atlantic Books 2017 978-1-78649-998-1 Publications March - The journal Antiquity is first published in the United Kingdom. In the first two issues, the editor O. G. S. Crawford dismisses the Glozel artifacts as largely fakes.Magnus Magnusson Magnus Magnusson Fakers, Forgers & Phoneys Edinburgh Mainstream 2007 2006 978-1-84596-210-4 144–4 Alan Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs is first published. Other events Work begins on draining Lake Nemi to recover the Nemi ships. December - An international commission declares most artefacts from the excavations at Glozel to be forgeries. Births January 14 - Rodolphe Kasser, Swiss philologist and archaeologist (d. 2013)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/Rodolphe_Kasser.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060420004738/http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/Rodolphe_Kasser.html dead April 20, 2006 Profiles nationalgeographic.com 17 May 2017 February 10 - Bridget Allchin, British archaeologist and prehistorian (d. 2017)Bridget Allchin obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/23/bridget-allchin-obituary The Guardian 23 August 2017 July 1 - Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist (d. 2019) August 20 - John Boardman, British classical archaeologist and art historian (d. 2024)Interview with Diana Scarisbrick Apollo May 2006 163 531 FindArticles http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_531_163/ai_n16462480 https://web.archive.org/web/20070121220726/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_531_163/ai_n16462480 January 21, 2007 usurped November 4 - Ivor Noël Hume, British historical archaeologist (d. 2017)Ivor Noël Hume, Archaeologist of Colonial America, Dies at 89 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/ivor-noel-hume-dead-archaeologist-colonial-williamsburg.html The New York Times 10 November 2017 19 February 2017 Deaths January 21 - Gen. Sir Charles Warren, British Biblical archaeologist (born 1840) References Archaeology Category:1920s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year