title: 1870s in anthropology
text: # 1870s in anthropology
  
  Timeline of anthropology, 1870–1879
  
  ## Events
  
  1873
  
  * The American Museum of Natural History establishes an anthropology department
  
  ## Publications
  
  1871
  
  * Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family
  
  ## Births
  
  1873
  
  * Leo Frobenius
  * Arnold van Gennep
  * Charles Seligman
  * John Reed Swanton
  
  ## Deaths
  
  1873
  
  * Louis Agassiz
  