title: 1880 in archaeology
text: # 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)
  