1926 in archaeology

1926 in archaeology

The year 1926 saw a number of significant events in the field of archaeology:

Explorations

* February: Thomas Gann visits the Mayan ruin of Coba, and publishes the first first-hand description of the site later in the year.
* Enrique Juan Palacios makes detailed description of Chinkultic
*Matthew Stirling explores New Guinea (through 1929)

Excavations

* British Museum sponsored excavations at Lubaantun under T.A. Joyce
* Uaxactun project by Carnegie Institution led by Oliver Ricketson begins
* Harold St George Gray excavates Windmill Hill
* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin joins the ongoing excavations of the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, China as an advisor

Publications

Finds

* October: Johan Gunnar Andersson announces the discovery of two human molars amongst the material excavated from the Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian, China by his assistant Otto Zdansky in 1921 and 1923
* Mayan settlement of El Mirador first discovered
* Crofton Roman Villa discovered by bricklayers in Orpington, England

Awards

Miscellaneous

* Sir Ellis Minns elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge

Births

Deaths


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