1928 in Archaeology - Excavations

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.
• Marthe and Saint-Just Péquart begin excavation of Mesolithic sites on the Breton island of Téviec.
• 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.
• A Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft and University of Pennsylvania team led by Oscar Reuther begins excavations at Ctesiphon.