James Harvey Chaplin

James "Jim" Harvey Chaplin (16 September 1924 – 31 March 1967) was a British meteorologist, archaeologist, and anthropologist who primarily studied weather, culture, and rock art in East and Central Africa.

Career Chaplin's major scientific contributions include:

performing ethnographic research on iron and copper smelting that was useful in describing metalworking traditions from the Iron Age rapidly organizing an excavation to collect evidence of 15th-century trading relations involving Monomatapa, the Zambian plateau, and the coast making "significant contributions to the study of Zambia's past"

Job positions

[ – 1945]: served as a seaman and meteorologist in the Royal Navy in the latter part of World War II, during which he visited Cape Town and Durban 1952 – c. 1957: member of the Meteorological Department of the Northern Rhodesian Government 1957–1962: Inspector of Monuments on the Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments and Relics, in close association with the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum c. 1964: Director of Antiquities in Uganda ; Director of Ancient Monuments of the Uganda Ministry of Culture ; Curator of Monuments for Uganda

Activities and affiliations

"had been a keen Boy Scout" 1950 May 17: elected as a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society 1951 December 17: elected for Fellowship with the Royal Geographical Society 1957 December: became a member of the South African Archaeological Society 1957 December – 1958 January: accompanied an International Geophysical Year expedition to climb Mount Kenya with 13 other people to survey its glaciers, serving as one of two meteorologists c. 1960: became an Associate of Current Anthropology c. 1963: received a minor grant for research on East Africa from the Emslie Horniman Anthropological Scholarship Fund 1964: joined two research expeditions with Merrick Posnansky to Lolui Island, finding rock gongs and rock art c. 1965: became a Life Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland c. 1966 – 1967: assisted in the editing of the Uganda Society's the Uganda Journal

Education

c. 1947–1948: University College London "did not have a university education" and progressed his career through work experience instead c. 1964 – 1966: M.A. from the African Studies Program at the Makerere University College of the University of East Africa, studying the symbolism of Central African rock art, supervised by Professor Merrick Posnansky

Publications Chaplin's publications include academic articles and letters, poetry, and more: Published in: (Note: The actual photograph is included in 10.1002/j.1477-8696.1953.tb02580.x.)

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Reproduced in "Notes and correspondence RE: analysis of cotton fabrics found at Ingombe Illede, Gurembe Valley, N. Rhodesia", AR3/1/2, FM:137453, at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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Life Chaplin was born on 16 September 1924 (in Harrow, London ), and baptized 2 November 1924 in the Parish of Greenhill in the County of Middlesex. He grew up in London.

Chaplin first visited Africa in 1943. He was Christian and regularly donated a tithe to charity. He was friendly with Africans, and supported African nationalism through UNIP, which could be another reason why others may have disregarded him. or crossing the street ) on 30 March in Kampala, He was buried at Kampala European Cemetery. In his will, he gave a bequest to the Royal Anthropological Institute of £600, or £634 with interest, "for the improvement or extension of the Institutes library facilities", which they spent mostly on books about primitive art, since that aligned with his interests. He also gave a bequest of £100 .