1941 in archaeology

Explorations

• First Gujarat prehistoric expedition.

Excavations

• June 19 - Mikhail M. Gerasimov opens Tamerlane's tomb.
• Excavations at Olmec site of La Venta by Matthew Stirling begin.
• Excavations at Arikamedu by the Société de l'histoire de l'Inde française begin.
• Excavations at Baiae, Italy, begin.
• Excavations at Fulda.

Publications

• Father Alberto Maria de Agostini becomes the first to write about Cueva de las Manos.

Finds

• September - Remains of Roman villa at Brantingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Miscellaneous

• September 27 - A Vichy France law promulgated by Jérôme Carcopino makes buried archaeological relics state property.
• The bulk of the finds from the 1927-1937 excavations of Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China are lost, never to be recovered, while being transported to safety.

Births

• July 8: Martin Carver, English archaeologist of early medieval Britain
• August 5: Ina Plug, née Post, Dutch-born zooarchaeologist
• December 16: Kent R. Weeks, American Egyptologist

Deaths

• July 11: Arthur Evans, English archaeologist of Minoan civilisation