1910 in archaeology

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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1910.

## Excavations

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* Pompeii

## References

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1. ^ "The scientific work". Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
2. ^ -- (1916). "The Site, Fauna, and Industry of La Cotte de St. Brelade, Jersey". Archaeologia. LXVII. London.
3. ^ Opper, Thorsten (2014). The Meroë Head of Augustus. Objects in Focus. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0714150918.
4. ^ "Obituary: Professor Anne Robertson". The Independent. November 15, 1997. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
5. ^ "Obituary: Professor Stuart Piggott". The Independent. September 27, 1996. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
6. ^ Holley, Joe (January 14, 2008). "Pompeian Historian Wilhelmina Jashemski". Washington Post. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
7. ^ "Obituary: Jacquetta Hawkes". The Independent. March 20, 1996. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved May 30, 2017.