1880 in archaeology
# 1880 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1880.

## Explorations

* William Matthew Flinders Petrie travels to Egypt and conducts a survey of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

## Excavations

* Nicolay Nicolaysen excavates the Gokstad ship in Norway.
* Heinrich Schliemann begins excavation around the Tomb of Minyas at Orchomenus (Boeotia).

## Finds

* The foundations of a convent, first erected in 670, discovered at Minster in Kent.
* Varvakeion Athena.
* The mandible of a Neanderthal child is discovered in a secure context in Šipka cave in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Czech Republic) associated with cultural debris including hearths, Mousterian tools and bones of extinct animals.

## Publications

* Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola and Juan Vilanova y Piera publish their initial findings on the paintings in the Cave of Altamira, suggesting to initial scepticism that they are of the Paleolithic period.
* The Journal of Hellenic Studies begins publication.

## Births

* April 11 – Julio C. Tello, Peruvian archaeologist (d. 1947)
* April 17 – Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist of Mesopotamia (d. 1960)
