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

Finds

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

  Awards

Miscellaneous

• 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, Englilsh archaeologist of Minoan civilisation