1906 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1906.
Explorations
- Christiana Herringham begins copying the Ajanta Caves paintings.
Excavations
- Hugo Winckler begins excavations at Hattusa near BoÄazköy in Turkey for the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft with Theodore Makridi which identify it as the royal capital of the Hittites (continue to 1911).
- Richard MacGillivray Dawkins begins excavations at the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia in Sparta (continue to 1910).[1]
- T. May begins excavations of the Principia of the Roman fort at Bremetennacum (Ribchester), Lancashire, England (continue to 1907).
- Excavations at Lisht are resumed by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (continue for 14 seasons to 1934).
- Approximate date â Antonios Keramopoulos begins systematic excavations of Mycenaean Thebes, Greece, starting at the Kolonaki hill (continue to 1921).[2]
Finds
- Mummy of Senebtisi at Lisht in Egypt.
- The Sounion Kouros at Cape Sounion in Greece.
Publications
- "Note sur une statuette mexicaine en wernerite représentant la déesse Ixcuina" by Ernest-Théodore Hamy in the Journal de la Société des Américanistes about the Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure.[3]
Events
- 8 June â Antiquities Act is passed by the United States Congress[4]
- 29 June â Mesa Verde, an Ancestral Puebloan site, is made a United States National Park
- September â A military balloon is flown over Stonehenge carrying out the first aerial photography in archaeology.[5]
Births
- 5 January â Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist of the Neolithic Fertile Crescent and college principal (d. 1978).
- 12 January â Eric Birley, British archaeologist associated with the excavations of forts on Hadrian's Wall (d. 1995).[6]
- 27 January â Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Mexican archaeologist (d. 1979).
- 26 June â Joan du Plat Taylor, British maritime archaeologist (d. 1983).