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.
- 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 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, is founded by the East Africa Natural History Society.
Births
- February 13 – Ignacio Bernal, Mexican archaeologist.
- May 3 – Anne Strachan Robertson, Scottish archaeologist and numismatist.
- May 28 – Stuart Piggott, English archaeologist.
- July 10 – Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, American archaeologist.
- August 5 – Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist.
Deaths
- May 26 – Cyrus Thomas, American ethnologist and archaeologist.
- June 22 – Richard Wetherill, American archaeologist.
- August 12 – Adolf Michaelis, German classical scholar.
- August 23 – Jakob Messikommer, Swiss archaeologist.