1927 in archaeology

1927 in archaeology

The year 1927 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

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Excavations

* Large scale excavations begin at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China under Canadian paleoanthropologist Davidson Black with support from the Rockefeller Foundation
* Excavations on Cyprus begin by Einar Gjerstad (until 1931)

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"

Publications

Births

Deaths

* Charles Warren, Biblical archaeologist


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