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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.

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 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992)
  • December 10 – Robert Wauchope, American archaeologist and anthropologist (d. 1979)
  • Su Bingqi, Chinese archaeologist (d. 1997)

References