Alec Campbell (masanin binciken kayan tarihi)

Alexander Colin Campbell (16 Afrilu 1932 – 24 Nuwamba 2012) masanin ilimin kimiya na kayan tarihi ne kuma mai kula da kayan tarihi a Botswana.  Ya kasance Darakta Emeritus na Sashen namun daji da wuraren shakatawa na ƙasa da abubuwan tarihi na Botswana.

 Rayuwa 
An haifi Campbell a Cheltenham, Ingila. Ya shiga cikin 'yan sandan Afirka ta Kudu na Burtaniya a yankin Kudancin Rhodesia na Burtaniya a cikin shekarar 1951. Ya koma sashen aikin gona a matsayin jami’in gudanarwa na tsetse fly  a shekara ta 1954, ya shiga Jami’ar Rhodes a shekara ta 1959, inda ya kammala karatunsa a Sindebele da Social Anthropology. Da yake zama jami'in gunduma a cikin Bechuanaland Protectorate a shekara 1962, Campbell ya gudanar da ƙidayar gida-gida ta farko a ƙasar a shekarar 1963–4. Bayan samun 'yancin kai ya zama babban mai kula da Sashen namun daji da wuraren shakatawa na ƙasar Botswana. Ya kafa kuma daga baya ya zama darektan gidan adana kayan tarihi da kayan tarihi na Botswana. Wanda ya kafa Botswana Society a cikin shekarar 1969, ya jagoranci kwamitin edita na mujallarta, Botswana Notes and Records, tsawon shekaru 30. 

A cikin shekarar 1970s Campbell yayi aiki don kawar da yarjejeniya da ta gabata cewa Botswana tana da ɗan ƙaramin aikin Stone Age. Neil Parsons, Botswana History Pages: Archaeology

Campbell ya zauna a wata gona kusa da Gaborone tare da matarsa Judy Campbell, wacce ita ma ta yi rubutu kan batutuwan tarihi tare da shi. Sheridan Griswold, review of Botswana Notes and Records volume 38, Mmegi Online, 8 May 2008 Ya rasu yana da shekaru 80 a duniya a Gaborone.

 Ayyuka 

 (tare da Thomas Tlou ) Tarihin Botswana, 1984
 Yanayin Botswana : jagora ga kiyayewa da haɓakawa, 1990
 (tare da David Coulson) fasahar dutsen Afirka : zane-zane da zane-zane a kan dutse, 2001
 (ed tare da Larry Robbins da Michael Taylor) Tsodilo tuddai : munduwa tagulla na Kalahari, 2008

 Manazarta 

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