1910 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1910.

Excavations[edit]

• Francis Llewellyn Griffith begins a 4-year series of excavations in Nubia.
• Edgar Lee Hewett begins a 4-year project at Quiriguá.
• Antonios Keramopoulos excavates the temple of Apollo in Thebes, Greece.^[1]
• St Piran's Oratory, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England.
• Coldrum Long Barrow in southeast England.
• Jesús Carballo begins the first excavations at the archaeological site of Atapuerca in northern Spain.
• Robert Ranulph Marett begins a 4-year project at the Paleolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade on Jersey, Channel Islands.^[2]

Finds[edit]

• December – 'Meroë Head' looted from a bronze statue of Roman emperor Augustus buried in the Kushite site of Meroë in modern Sudan, excavated by John Garstang.^[3]

Events[edit]

• United Fruit Company purchases land in Guatemala including the Maya site of Quiriguá; 30 acres (120,000 m²) including and around the ruins are set aside as an archaeological zone.
• The National Museums of Kenya, a governmental body maintaining several museums and monuments in Kenya (with headquarters in Nairobi), is founded by the East Africa Natural History Society.

Births[edit]

• February 13 – Ignacio Bernal, Mexican archaeologist (d. 1992).
• May 3 – Anne Strachan Robertson, Scottish archaeologist and numismatist (d. 1997).^[4]
• May 28 – Stuart Piggott, English archaeologist (d. 1996).^[5]
• July 10 – Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, American archaeologist (d. 2007).^[6]
• August 5 – Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist (d. 1996).^[7]

Deaths[edit]

• May 26 – Cyrus Thomas, American ethnologist and archaeologist (b. 1825).
• June 22 – Richard Wetherill, American archaeologist (b. 1858).
• August 12 – Adolf Michaelis, German classical scholar (b. 1835).
• August 23 – Jakob Messikommer, Swiss archaeologist (b. 1828).

See also[edit]

• Pompeii

References[edit]