1910 in archaeology

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 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).
 * 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).