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)