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1879 in archaeology
Overview of the events of 1879 in archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1879.
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- 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.
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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).
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- "The scientific work". Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
- Artefacts in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
- "Anthropology". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 25 May 2017.