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The year 1927 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

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