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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 (120,000 m<sup>2</sup>) 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).

See also

  • Pompeii

References