1928 in archaeology
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The year 1928 in archaeology involved some significant events.
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[edit] 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
[edit] 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 led 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
[edit] Finds
- Continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China led by Davidson Black uncover more fossils of a new species he has dubbed Sinanthropus pekinensis
- Ruins of Ugarit
[edit] Publications
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Davidson Black founds the Cenozoic Research Laboratory for the research and appraisal of fossils unearthed at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China
