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1880 in archaeology
Overview of the events of 1880 in archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1880.
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- William Matthew Flinders Petrie travels to Egypt and conducts a survey of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
- Nicolay Nicolaysen excavates the Gokstad ship in Norway.
- Heinrich Schliemann begins excavation around the Tomb of Minyas at Orchomenus (Boeotia).[1]
- The foundations of a convent, first erected in 670, discovered at Minster in Kent.[2]
- Varvakeion Athena.
- The mandible of a Neanderthal child is discovered in a secure context in Šipka cave in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Czech Republic) associated with cultural debris including hearths, Mousterian tools and bones of extinct animals.
- Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola and Juan Vilanova y Piera publish their initial findings on the paintings in the Cave of Altamira, suggesting to initial scepticism that they are of the Paleolithic period.
- The Journal of Hellenic Studies begins publication.[3]
- April 11 – Julio C. Tello, Peruvian archaeologist (d. 1947)
- April 17 – Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist of Mesopotamia (d. 1960)[4]
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- Schliemann, Heinrich (1881). Orchomenos: Bericht über meine Ausgrabungen in Böotischen Orchomenos. Leipzig.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Minster". The Cornishman. No. 122. 11 November 1880. p. 5.
- A numismatic index to the "Journal of Hellenic Studies", 1880-1969, by J. R. Jones. W. Heffer and Sons. 1971. ISBN 9780852700563. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - "Charles Leonard Woolley". Artifacts of Excavation. The Griffith Institute, University of Oxford. Retrieved 22 June 2017.