Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in

1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

Explorations

Christiana Herringham Christiana Jane Herringham, Lady Herringham (née Powell; 1852–1929) was a British artist, copyist, and art patron. She is noted for her part in establishing the National Art Collections Fund in 1903 to help preserve Britain's artistic heritag ...

begins copying the

Ajanta Caves The Ajanta Caves are approximately thirty rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures des ...

paintings.

Excavations

Hugo Winckler Hugo Winckler (4 July 1863 – 19 April 1913) was a German archaeologist and historian who uncovered the capital of the Hittite Empire (Hattusa) at Boğazkale, Turkey. A student of the languages of the ancient Middle East, he wrote extens ...

begins excavations at Hattusa near Boğazköy in Turkey for the

Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (, ''German Oriental Society''), abbreviated DOG, is a German voluntary association based in Berlin dedicated to the study of the Near East. The DOG was officially founded in January 1898 to foster public interest ...

with

Theodore Makridi Theodore Makridi Bey (1872–1940) was an Ottoman and Turkish - Greek archaeologist who conducted the first excavations of the Hittite capital, Hattusas. He was the second director of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum (then Imperial Ottoman Museu ...

which identify it as the royal capital of the Hittites (continue to 1911). *

Richard MacGillivray Dawkins Richard MacGillivray Dawkins FBA (24 October 1871 – 4 May 1955) was a British archaeologist. He was associated with the British School at Athens, of which he was Director between 1906 and 1913. Early life He was the son of Rear-Admiral ...

begins excavations at the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia in Sparta (continue to 1910). * T. May begins excavations of the Principia of the Roman fort at Bremetennacum (

Ribchester Ribchester is a village and civil parish within the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Ribble, northwest of Blackburn and east of Preston. The village has a long history with evidence of Bronze ...

), 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 Antonios Keramopoulos ( el, Αντώνιος Κεραμόπουλος; Vlasti, 1870 – Athens, 13 May 1960) was a Greek archaeologist. He conducted numerous excavations studying Mycenean and classical Greek antiquities during the early 20th cent ...

begins systematic excavations of Mycenaean Thebes, Greece, starting at the Kolonaki hill (continue to 1921).

Finds

* Mummy of

Senebtisi Senebtisi was an ancient Egyptian woman who lived at the end of the 12th Dynasty, around 1800 BC. She is only known from her undisturbed burial found at Lisht. Very little is known about Senebtisi. On the objects found in her tomb she has the se ...

at Lisht in Egypt. * The

Sounion Kouros The Sounion Kouros is an early archaic Greek statue of a naked young man or kouros (Ancient Greek κοῦρος, plural kouroi) carved in marble from the island of Naxos around 600 BCE. It is one of the earliest examples that scholars have of the ...

at Cape Sounion in Greece.

Publications

*"Note sur une statuette mexicaine en wernerite représentant la déesse Ixcuina" by

Ernest-Théodore Hamy Ernest-Théodore Hamy (22 June 1842, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 18 November 1908, Paris) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist. He studied medicine in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1868. Afterwards, he served as a ''préparateur'' under Pa ...

in the ''

Journal de la Société des Américanistes The ''Journal de la Société des Américanistes'' (''Journal of the Society of Americanists'') is an academic journal covering the cultural anthropology of the Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a ...

'' about the

Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure The Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure is a possibly Aztec scapolite figurine of a woman giving childbirth in a squatting position. Housed in the Dumbarton Oaks collection, United States, the figurine is considered by several scholars to be a pre-Colu ...

Events

* 8 June – Antiquities Act is passed by the United States Congress * 29 June – Mesa Verde, an Ancestral Puebloan site, is made a United States National Park * September – A military balloon is flown over

Stonehenge Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connectin ...

carrying out the first aerial photography in archaeology.

Births

* 5 January – Kathleen Kenyon, English

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

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 Hadrian's Wall ( la, Vallum Aelium), also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or ''Vallum Hadriani'' in Latin, is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. R ...

(d. 1995). * 27 January – Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Mexican

(d. 1979). * 26 June –

Joan du Plat Taylor Joan Mabel Frederica du Plat Taylor FSA (Glasgow, 26 June 1906 – Cambridge, 21 May 1983) was a British archaeologist and pioneer of underwater nautical archaeology. Early life and education Joan Mabel Frederica Du Plat Taylor was born in Gl ...

, British maritime archaeologist (d. 1983).

Deaths

References

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