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thurstan shaw , senegal , 1967 8 march 2013 plymouth , england british 27 june 1914 thurstan shaw in 1967 archaeology of igbo ukwu igbo ukwu volume i & ii thurstan shaw 1967.jpg charles thurstan shaw
 charles thurstan shaw archaeologist
charles thurstan shaw

charles thurstan shaw cbe fba fsa -lrb- 27 june 1914 - 8 march 2013 -rrb- 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 archeology department , which he led for more than 10 years before his retirement in 1974 .
his excavations at igbo-ukwu , nigeria revealed a 9th-century indigenous culture that did highly sophisticated work in bronze metalworking , centuries before other sites that were better known at the time of discovery , and independent of any arab or european influence .
he was awarded the c.b.e. in 1972 for his contributions , and in 1989 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 . ''
