Charles Thurstan Shaw, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Thurstan Shaw

English archaeologist

Date of Birth: 27-Jun-1914

Place of Birth: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 08-Mar-2013

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Chief Charles Thurstan Shaw CBE FBA FSA (27 June 1914 – 8 March 2013) was an English archaeologist, the first trained specialist to work in what was then British West Africa.
He specialized in the ancient cultures of present-day Ghana and Nigeria.
He helped establish academic institutions, including the Ghana National Museum and the archaeology department at the University of Ghana.
He began working with the University of Ibadan in 1960, where he later founded and developed its archaeology department.
He led this for more than 10 years before his retirement in 1974.
Shaw's excavations at Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria revealed a 9th-century indigenous culture that created sophisticated work in bronze metalworking, independent of any Arab or European influence and centuries before other sites that were better known at the time of discovery.
He was awarded the C.B.E.
in 1972 for his contributions.
In 1989, he was made a tribal chief in Nigeria. In addition, Shaw worked on expanding communications about African archaeology; in 1964, he founded the West African Archaeological Newsletter, which he edited until 1970; from 1971-1975, he edited the West African Journal of Archaeology.