1927 in archaeology
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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).[1]
- 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.[2]
- First location of wreckage from the VOC Zuytdorp in Western Australia.
- Pilot Percy Maitland observes stone wheel-like structures across Syria and Saudi Arabia.[3]
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.[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)[5]
- February 10 - Bridget Allchin, British archaeologist and prehistorian (d. 2017)[6]
- July 1 - Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist (d. 2019)
- August 20 - John Boardman, British classical archaeologist and art historian (d. 2024)[7]
- November 4 - Ivor Noël Hume, British historical archaeologist (d. 2017)[8]
Deaths
- January 21 - Gen. Sir Charles Warren, British Biblical archaeologist (born 1840)
References
- ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Skara Brae (Site no. HY21NW 12)". Retrieved 21 June 2025.
- ↑ Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark. ""Priest King," Mohenjo-daro". Harappa.com. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- ↑ Hartston, William (2017). "Who built thousands of giant stone wheel-like structures in the Middle East?". The Bumper Book of Things That Nobody Knows. London: Atlantic Books. pp. 383–4. ISBN 978-1-78649-998-1.
- ↑ Magnusson, Magnus (2007) [2006]. Fakers, Forgers & Phoneys. Edinburgh: Mainstream. pp. 144–4. ISBN 978-1-84596-210-4.
- ↑ "Profiles". nationalgeographic.com. Archived from the original on April 20, 2006. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ↑ "Bridget Allchin obituary". The Guardian. 23 August 2017.
- ↑ "Interview with Diana Scarisbrick". Apollo. 163 (531). May 2006. Archived from the original on January 21, 2007 – via FindArticles.
- ↑ "Ivor Noël Hume, Archaeologist of Colonial America, Dies at 89". The New York Times. 19 February 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
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