1. Explorations

2. Excavations

3. Finds

4. Publications

5. Events

6. Births

7. Deaths

8. See also

9. References

The year 1879 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• 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]

Finds

• 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.

Publications

Events

• May 10: Establishment of the Archaeological Institute of America.^[2]
• Establishment of the Bureau of Ethnology.
• Percy Gardner is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.

Births

• March 29 - Alan Gardiner.
• July 13 - Alan Wace.

Deaths

See also

• Cave art / Bison

References

• The Balloon Farm
• The Balloon-Hoax
• The Ballot or the Bullet
• The Ballpark at Arlington
• The Ballpark at Harbor Yard
• The Ballpark at Jackson
• The Ballpark in Arlington
• The Ballroom Blitz
• The Baltic countries
• The Baltic Countries
• The Baltic Countrys
• The Baltic countrys
• The Baltic Institute
• The Baltics
• The Baltic Sea countries
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• The Baltic Sea Countrys
• The Baltic Sea countrys
• The Baltic States
• The Baltic states
• The Baltic Times
• The Balticum
• The Baltimore Consort
• The Baltimore Sun
• The Bam Balams