1927 in archaeology

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The year 1927 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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.
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).

Finds

Davidson Black's excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China yielded a human tooth that he proposed belonged to a new species that he named Sinanthropus pekinensis
First location of wreckage from the VOC Zuytdorp in Western Australia.

Publications

March - The journal Antiquity is first published.
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 (died 2013).

Deaths

January 21 - Gen. Sir Charles Warren, British Biblical archaeologist

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