Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1941.

Explorations

• First Gujarat prehistoric expedition (continues to 1942).

Excavations

• June 19 - Mikhail M. Gerasimov opens Tamerlane's tomb.
• Excavations at Olmec site of La Venta by Matthew Stirling begin.
• Excavations at Arikamedu (Podouké) by the Société de l'histoire de l'Inde française begin (continue to 1945).
• Excavations at Baiae, Italy, begin.
• Excavations at Fulda.

Publications

• Father Alberto Maria de Agostini becomes the first to write about Cueva de las Manos.^[1][2]

Finds

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

Awards

Miscellaneous

• September 27 - A Vichy France law promulgated by Jérôme Carcopino makes buried archaeological relics state property.^[3]
• 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^[4]