1928 in archaeology
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1928 in archaeology
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[edit] Explorations
- American astronomer and University of Arizona professor A. E. Douglass participates in a National Geographic Society research project exploring Chaco Canyon. Using his newly invented technique of dendrochronology, Douglass dates Chetro Ketl and dozens of Chacoan sites (through 1929)
- Expedition under Neil Merton Judd to collect dendrochronological specimens in order to date habitation of Chaco Canyon
[edit] Excavations
- September: John Garstang conducts first excavations at Et-Tell
- Vere Gordon Childe begins excavations at Skara Brae
[edit] Finds
- Ruins of Ugarit
