This page lists major events of 2021 in archaeology.
Excavations
January 29 – The Herculaneum Conservation Project announces it will begin excavations of a beach where 300 skeletons of victims from the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE have been discovered. January 30 – Excavation of an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site in west Cambridge, England, is reported. February 4 – Preliminary excavations on the intended site of the Stonehenge road tunnel in England have uncovered Bronze Age graves and neolithic pottery among other features, it is reported. April 30 – A World War II 'Buffalo' Landing Vehicle Tracked is excavated near Crowland in England. May 19 – Decapitated bodies found at Knobb's Farm, Somersham, Cambridgeshire in eastern England, are victims of Roman executions in the 3rd century.