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.^[1]
• St Piran's Oratory, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England.

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)^[2]
• May 28 - Stuart Piggott, English archaeologist (d. 1996).^[3]
• July 10 - Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, American archaeologist (d. 2007)^[4]
• August 5 - Jacquetta Hawkes, British archaeologist (d. 1996).^[5]

Deaths

• May 26 - Cyrus Thomas, American ethnologist and archaeologist (b. 1825).
• August 23 - Jakob Messikommer, Swiss archaeologist (b. 1828).
• Richard Wetherill, American archaeologist (b. 1858).

See also

• Pompeii

References