1909 in archaeology

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The year 1909 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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 (began in 1890)

Finds

Lady of Auxerre located in the Louvre
Betatakin ruins discovered by Byron Cummings

Miscellaneous

The National Trust purchases White Barrow on Salisbury Plain in England, its first archaeological site.

Births

December 10 - Robert Wauchope, American archaeologist and anthropologist (d. 1979)

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