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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1927.

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 (completed in 1930).
  • 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).
  • Excavations begin at Garðar Cathedral Ruins.

Finds

  • Davidson Black's excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China yield a human tooth that he proposed belonged to a new species that he names Sinanthropus pekinensis.
  • Skeleton of Asselar man discovered by Théodore Monod and Wladimir Besnard in the Adrar des Ifoghas.
  • Kents Cavern 4 maxilla found in England.
  • Leonard Woolley's excavations at Ur uncover the Enheduanna calcite disc.
  • "Priest-King" sculpture from the Indus Valley Civilisation found at Mohenjo-daro.
  • First location of wreckage from the VOC Zuytdorp in Western Australia.
  • Pilot Percy Maitland observes stone wheel-like structures across Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Publications

  • March - The journal Antiquity is first published in the United Kingdom. In the first two issues, the editor O. G. S. Crawford dismisses the Glozel artifacts as largely fakes.
  • 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 (d. 2013)
  • February 10 - Bridget Allchin, British archaeologist and prehistorian (d. 2017)
  • July 1 - Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist (d. 2019)
  • August 20 - John Boardman, British classical archaeologist and art historian (d. 2024)
  • November 4 - Ivor Noël Hume, British historical archaeologist (d. 2017)

Deaths

  • January 21 - Gen. Sir Charles Warren, British Biblical archaeologist (born 1840)

References