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)
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