1906 in archaeology
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 Boğazköy in Turkey for the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft with Theodore Makridi which identify it as the royal capital of the Hittites.
- Richard MacGillivray Dawkins begins excavations at the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia in Sparta.
- T. May begins excavations of the Principia of the Roman fort at Bremetennacum, Lancashire, England.
- Excavations at Lisht are resumed by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- Approximate date – Antonios Keramopoulos begins systematic excavations of Mycenaean Thebes, Greece, starting at the Kolonaki hill.
Finds
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.
Events
- 8 June – Antiquities Act is passed by the United States Congress
- 29 June – Mesa Verde, an Ancestral Puebloan site, is made a United States National Park
- September – A military balloon is flown over Stonehenge carrying out the first aerial photography in archaeology.
Births
- 5 January – Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist of the Neolithic Fertile Crescent and college principal.
- 12 January – Eric Birley, British archaeologist associated with the excavations of forts on Hadrian's Wall.
- 27 January – Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Mexican archaeologist.
- 26 June – Joan du Plat Taylor, British maritime archaeologist.