The year 1928 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• American astronomer and University of Arizona professor A. E. Douglass participates in a National Geographic Society research project under Neil Merton Judd exploring Chaco Canyon. Using his newly invented technique of dendrochronology, Douglass dates Chetro Ketl and dozens of Chacoan sites (through 1929).
• Tell Arpachiyah in Iraq explored by Reginald Campbell Thompson.

Excavations

• September: John Garstang conducts first excavations at Et-Tell.
• V. Gordon Childe begins excavations at Skara Brae.
• Stuart Piggott begins excavations at Butser Hill.
• 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.
• Excavations at Beit Shemesh (continue to 1931).
• Gertrude Caton Thompson begins excavations at Great Zimbabwe.
• Dorothy Garrod excavates cave sites in Judea and south Kurdistan.

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.
• First inscriptions of Byblos syllabary excavated by Maurice Dunand.

Publications

• V. Gordon Childe - The Most Ancient East: the oriental prelude to European prehistory.
• O. G. S. Crawford and Alexander Keiller - Wessex from the Air (Oxford).

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

References

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