| LC control no. | n 50022188 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Shaw, Thurstan |
| Variant(s) | Shaw, Charles Thurstan |
| Associated country | England Ghana Nigeria |
| Birth date | 1914-06-27 |
| Death date | 2013-03-08 |
| Place of birth | Plymouth (England) |
| Field of activity | Nigeria--Antiquities Antiquities, Prehistoric--Nigeria Archaeology |
| Affiliation | Magdalene College (University of Cambridge) University of Ibadan University College (Ibadan, Nigeria) Achimota College |
| Profession or occupation | Archaeologists College teachers |
| Found in | His The study of Africa's past, 1946. Imprints of West Africa's past, 1993: t.p. (Thurstan Shaw) p. 17 (b. 1914) Telegraph (online), viewed Apr. 1, 2013 (Professor Thurstan Shaw; b. Charles Thurstan Shaw, June 27, 1914, Plymouth; d. Mar. 8, 2013; archaeologist whose work in Nigeria offered a new understanding of West African prehistory) Conference in honour of Professor Thurstan Shaw and fifty years of archaeology in Africa, 1989: page 24 (Shaw was offered an appointment in 1937 at Achimota College, Gold Coast, soon after his training at Cambridge; taught Latin and English and developed the College Anthropology Museum; left the Gold Coast in 1945) |
| Associated language | eng |
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