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The year 1879 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Finds

• Bison, on the ceiling of a cave at Altamira, Spain. c. 12000 BC. Accepted as authentic in 1902.

Publications

Events

• Establishment of the Bureau of Ethnology.
• Percy Gardner is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.

Births

• 13 July - Alan Wace

Deaths

See also

• Cave art / Bison