1910 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1910.
Excavations
- 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
- December â '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
- 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
- February 13 â Ignacio Bernal, Mexican archaeologist (d. 1992).
- May 3 â Anne Strachan Robertson, Scottish archaeologist and numismatist (d. 1997).[4]
- May 28 â Stuart Piggott, English archaeologist (d. 1996).[5]
- July 10 â Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, American archaeologist (d. 2007).[6]
- August 5 â Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist (d. 1996).[7]
Deaths
- May 26 â Cyrus Thomas, American ethnologist and archaeologist (b. 1825).
- June 22 â Richard Wetherill, American archaeologist (b. 1858).
- August 12 â Adolf Michaelis, German classical scholar (b. 1835).
- August 23 â Jakob Messikommer, Swiss archaeologist (b. 1828).