1910 in archaeology

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.
• 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.

Finds

• 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.

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

Deaths

• 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).

References

References

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3. Opper, Thorsten. (2014). "The Meroë Head of Augustus". British Museum Press.
4. (November 15, 1997). "Obituary: Professor Anne Robertson".
5. (September 27, 1996). "Obituary: Professor Stuart Piggott".
6. (January 14, 2008). "Pompeian Historian Wilhelmina Jashemski". Washington Post.
7. (March 20, 1996). "Obituary: Jacquetta Hawkes".