1906 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1906.
Explorations[edit]
- Christiana Herringham begins copying the Ajanta Caves paintings.
Excavations[edit]
- 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 (continue to 1911).
- Richard MacGillivray Dawkins begins excavations at the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia in Sparta (continue to 1910).[1]
- T. May begins excavations of the Principia of the Roman fort at Bremetennacum (Ribchester), Lancashire, England (continue to 1907).
- Excavations at Lisht are resumed by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (continue for 14 seasons to 1934).
- Approximate date – Antonios Keramopoulos begins systematic excavations of Mycenaean Thebes, Greece, starting at the Kolonaki hill (continue to 1921).[2]
Finds[edit]
- Mummy of Senebtisi at Lisht in Egypt.
- The Sounion Kouros at Cape Sounion in Greece.
Publications[edit]
- "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.[3]
Events[edit]
- 8 June – Antiquities Act is passed by the United States Congress[4]
- 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.[5]
Births[edit]
- 5 January – Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist of the Neolithic Fertile Crescent and college principal (d. 1978).
- 12 January – Eric Birley, British archaeologist associated with the excavations of forts on Hadrian's Wall (d. 1995).[6]
- 27 January – Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Mexican archaeologist (d. 1979).
- 26 June – Joan du Plat Taylor, British maritime archaeologist (d. 1983).
Deaths[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^ Dawkins, R. M (1929). "The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta". Journal of Hellenic Studies (Supplement no. 5). London.
- ^ "The scientific work". Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
- ^ Jane MacLaren Walsh (2008). "The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface". Journal de la Société des Américanistes. 94: 7–43. doi:10.4000/jsa.8623. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ "Antiquities Act of 1906". Theodore Roosevelt Center. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ Barber, Martyn (2011). A History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology. Swindon: English Heritage. ISBN 978-1-84802-036-8.
- ^ "Obituary: Professor Eric Birley". The Independent. 26 October 1995. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2017.