Excavations

• December: Chinese
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
   prehistorian Jia Lanpo
  Jia Lanpo
  Jia Lanpo was a Chinese prehistorian. Professor Jia was one of the founders of Chinese anthropology.He graduated from the Huiwen Academy in 1929 and went on to work as a trainee at the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China...
  
   appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man
  Peking Man
  Peking Man , Homo erectus pekinensis, is an example of Homo erectus. A group of fossil specimens was discovered in 1923-27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian near Beijing , China...
  
   site in Zhoukoudian
  Zhoukoudian
  Zhoukoudian or Choukoutien is a cave system in Beijing, China. It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus, dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the gigantic hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris...
  
  , China.

Miscellaneous

• V. Gordon Childe delivers the inaugural Presidential address to The Prehistoric Society
  The Prehistoric Society
  The Prehistoric Society is an international learned society devoted to the study of the human past from the earliest times until the emergence of written history....
  
   in England
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
  on 'Changing Methods and Aims in Prehistory'.