1926 in archaeology
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The year 1926 in archaeology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Explorations
- February: Thomas Gann visits the Maya ruin of Coba, and publishes the first first-hand description of the site later in the year.
- Enrique Juan Palacios makes detailed description of Chinkultic
- Matthew Stirling explores New Guinea (through 1929)
[edit] Excavations
- British Museum sponsored excavations at Lubaantun under T.A. Joyce
- Uaxactun project by Carnegie Institution led by Oliver Ricketson begins
- Harold St George Gray excavates Windmill Hill
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin joins the ongoing excavations of the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, China as an advisor
[edit] Publications
[edit] Finds
- October: Johan Gunnar Andersson announces the discovery of two human molar amongst the material excavated from the Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China by his assistant Otto Zdansky in 1921 and 1923
- Maya site of El Mirador
- Crofton Roman Villa
[edit] Awards
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Sir Ellis Minns elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge
