1871 in archaeology

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The year 1871 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• Karl Mauch explores and describes the ruins of Great Zimbabwe.

Excavations

• Heinrich Schliemann begins his excavations of Troy.

Publications

• Edward Burnett Tylor's anthropological text Primitive Culture.

Finds

• Gezer discovered by Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau.
• Hut on Novaya Zemlya used by Willem Barentsz's expedition is found by Norwegian seal hunter Elling Carlsen.

Births

• October 11 - Harriet Boyd Hawes, American archaeologist of the Minoan civilization (died 1945)

See also

• Ancient Egypt / Egyptology