1928 in archaeology

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The year 1928 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Explorations 2 Excavations 3 Finds 4 Publications 5 Miscellaneous 6 Births 7 Deaths

Explorations

• American astronomer and University of Arizona professor A. E. Douglass participates in a National Geographic Society research project exploring Chaco Canyon. Using his newly invented technique of dendrochronology, Douglass dates Chetro Ketl and dozens of Chacoan sites (through 1929)
• Expedition under Neil Merton Judd to collect dendrochronological specimens in order to date habitation of Chaco Canyon

Excavations

• September: John Garstang conducts first excavations at Et-Tell.
• Vere Gordon Childe begins excavations at Skara Brae.
• The first excavations begin at Yinxu, China lead 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

Finds

• Continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China lead by Davidson Black uncover more fossils of a new species he has dubbed Sinanthropus pekinensis
• Ruins of Ugarit

Publications

Miscellaneous

• Davidson Black founds the Cenozoic Research Laboratory for the research and appraisal of fossils unearthed at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China

Births

Deaths

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