Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1911.

Explorations

• 24 July: Hiram Bingham III rediscovers Machu Picchu, Peru.

Excavations

• Excavations of the ruins of Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, by Ludwig Borchardt of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (continues to 1914).
• First excavations of ancient Samarra, Iraq, by Ernst Herzfeld (continues to 1914).
• First excavations of Tell Halaf, Syria, by Max von Oppenheim (continues to 1913).
• Excavations of the Hittite city of Carchemish, northern Syria, by D. G. Hogarth of the Ashmolean Museum with Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence (continues to 1914).
• First excavations of Hengistbury Head by J. P. Bushe-Fox.
• First excavations at Beit Shemesh (continues to 1912).
• Excavations at the necropolis of Tanagra (Boeotia) by Nikolaos Papadakis.^[1]

Publications

• James Curle: A Roman Frontier Post and its People: the Fort of Newstead.
• Grafton Elliot Smith: The Ancient Egyptians and the Origin of Civilization.

Finds

• Venus of Laussel.
• First artefacts found at Dolní Věstonice.
• Magdalenian Girl.
• Clacton Spear.

Awards

Miscellaneous

Births

• Leslie Peter Wenham, Yorkshire archaeologist (died 1990)

Deaths

• 19 August: John Robert Mortimer, Yorkshire archaeologist (born 1825)