Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1879.
Excavations
edit- Major excavation at Babylon, conducted by Hormuzd Rassam on behalf of the British Museum. Work continues until 1882.
- Excavation of the group tomb of the Sacred Band of Thebes who fell in the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) in Boeotia by Panagiotis Stamatakis.[1]
- Excavation of the stone circles of Junapani by J. H. Rivett-Carnac in Maharashtra.
Finds
edit- April 12 – Burial of a Thracian chieftain at Dalboki in central Bulgaria.[2]
- Paintings of bison on the ceiling of the Cave of Altamira in Spain. c.12000 BC; accepted as authentic in 1902.
- Bronze Age weapons hoard at New Bradwell, Buckinghamshire, England.
Events
edit- May 10 – Establishment of the Archaeological Institute of America.[3]
- Establishment of the Bureau of Ethnology.
- Percy Gardner is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
Births
edit- March 29 – Alan Gardiner, English Egyptologist (died 1963).
- July 13 – Alan Wace, English Classical archaeologist (died 1957).
- September 13 – Harry Burton, English archaeological photographer, known for his photos of the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb (died 1940).
- Grace Mary Crowfoot, née Hood, English textile archaeologist (died 1957).
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "The scientific work". Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
- ↑ Artefacts in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
- ↑ "Anthropology". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 25 May 2017.