1909 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1909.
Explorations
- Discovery of the Burgess Shale Cambrian fossil site in the Canadian Rockies by palaeontologist Charles Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution.[1]
Excavations
- Excavation of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester Roman Town) in England by the Society of Antiquaries of London completed (begun in 1890).
- Excavations at Ritsona in Boeotia by Ronald Burrows and Percy and Annie Ure of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens begin (completed in 1922).
- Excavations at Villa of Mysteries at Pompeii begin.
- At Knap Hill in Wiltshire, England, the first excavation of a causewayed enclosure, by Ben and Maud Cunnington, is completed (begun in 1908).
Finds
- Betatakin ruins discovered by Byron Cummings
Miscellaneous
- The National Trust purchases White Barrow on Salisbury Plain in England, its first archaeological site.
Births
- January 8 â Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992)
- December 10 â Robert Wauchope, American archaeologist and anthropologist (d. 1979)
- Su Bingqi, Chinese archaeologist (d. 1997)