1927 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1927.

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)