1906 in archaeology

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The year 1906 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• Christiana Herringham begins copying the Ajanta Caves paintings.

Excavations

• Hugo Winckler begins excavations at Boğazköy in Turkey for the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (continue to 1911).
• 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).

Finds

• Mummy of Senebtisi at Lisht in Egypt.

Publications

• "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.

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 carrying out the first aerial photography in archaeology.

Births

• 12 January - Eric Birley, British archaeologist associated with the excavations of forts on Hadrian's Wall (d. 1995).
• 27 January - Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Mexican archaeologist (d. 1979).
• 26 June - Joan du Plat Taylor, British maritime archaeologist (d. 1983).