1928 in archaeology

none 1928 archaeology science Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1928. Explorations American astronomer and University of Arizona professor A. E. Douglass participates in a National Geographic Society research project under Neil Merton Judd exploring Chaco Canyon. Using his newly invented technique of dendrochronology, Douglass dates Chetro Ketl and dozens of Chacoan sites (through 1929). Tell Arpachiyah in Iraq explored by Reginald Campbell Thompson. Excavations September: John Garstang conducts first excavations at Et-Tell. September–October: Porlock Stone Circle on Exmoor in England surveyed by Harold St George Gray. Italian archaeologist Luigi Maria Ugolini begins excavations at Buthrotum in Epirus (modern-day Albania). V. Gordon Childe begins excavations at Skara Brae. Stuart Piggott begins excavations at Butser Hill. Marthe and Saint-Just Péquart begin excavation of Mesolithic sites on the Breton island of Téviec.Péquart M. Péquart, S.-J. Boule, M. Marcellin Boule Vallois, H. 1937 Téviec, station nécropole mésolithique du Morbihan Paris Archives de l'Institut de Paléontologie Humaine Mémoire 18 The first excavations begin at Yinxu, China led by Li Chi of the Chinese Institute of History and Philosophy. Chinese archeologist Pei Wenzhong joins the continuing excavations at Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian, China. Excavations at Beit Shemesh (continue to 1931). Gertrude Caton Thompson begins excavations at Great Zimbabwe. Dorothy Garrod excavates cave sites in Judea and south Kurdistan. A Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft and University of Pennsylvania team led by Oscar Reuther begins excavations at Ctesiphon.K. Schippmann Ktesiphon-Expedition im Winter 1928/29 Grundzüge der parthischen Geschichte Darmstadt 1980E. Meyer Seleukia und Ktesiphon Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin 67 1–26 1929O. Reuther The German Excavations at Ctesiphon Antiquity 3 12 434–451 1929 10.1017/S0003598X00003781 163969599 J. Upton The Expedition to Ctesiphon 1931–1932 Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 27 188–197 1932 8 10.2307/3255274 3255274 John Winter Crowfoot begins excavations of early Christian churches at Jerash (Gerasa) in Transjordan (continue to 1930). Mortimer Wheeler begins excavations at Lydney Park (continues to 1929). Finds Continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China led by Davidson Black uncover more fossils of a new species he dubs Sinanthropus pekinensis. Ruins of Ugarit. First traces of Mal'ta–Buret' culture found in Siberia. First inscriptions of Byblos syllabary excavated by Maurice Dunand. Publications V. Gordon Childe - The Most Ancient East: the oriental prelude to European prehistory. O. G. S. Crawford and Alexander Keiller - Wessex from the Air (Oxford). Miscellaneous Davidson Black founds the Cenozoic Research Laboratory for the research and appraisal of fossils unearthed at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum inaugurated in San Jose, California Births February 2: Stanley South, American archaeologist; author of Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology (1977) (died 2016) March 8: Björn Ambrosiani, Swedish archaeologist April 26: Charles Thomas, Cornish prehistorian (died 2016)Fowler Peter Charles Thomas obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/08/charles-thomas-obituary The Guardian London 25 August 2017 8 May 2016 September 27: Margaret Rule, British maritime archaeologist (died 2015)https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/16/margaret-rule Margaret Rule obituary The Guardian 17 May 2017 Deaths Arthur Mace of the British archaeologist Howard Carter excavation team, said to have died of arsenic poisoning in 1928.Tutankhamun's Curse?, Published in History Today Volume 64 Issue 3 March 2014 References Archaeology Category:1920s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year