title: 1871 in archaeology
text: # 1871 in archaeology
  
  Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1871.
  
  ## Explorations
  
  * Karl Mauch explores and describes the ruins of Great Zimbabwe.
  
  ## Excavations
  
  * October 11 - Heinrich Schliemann begins his excavations of Troy.
  * Hjalmar Stolpe begins his excavations of Birka.
  
  ## 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)
  