About Peter Shinnie
Lived 1915 – 2007 (aged 92). Peter Shinnie was a British archaeologist.
Peter Lewis Shinnie (January 18, 1915, in London – July 9, 2007, in Calgary) was a British archaeologist and Nubiologist. He was the author of Meroe: A Civilization of the Sudan.
Works Medieval Nubia (1954) Excavations at Soba (1955) Ghazali, a monastery in the northern Sudan 1961, concerning the Monastery in Ghazali Meroë: A civilization of the Sudan (1967) The African Iron Age (1971) Debeira West, a mediaeval Nubian town (1978) The capital of Kush (1980) Archaeology of Gonja, Ghana: Excavations at Daboya (1989) Ancient Nubia (1995) Early Asante (1995)
Biography A personal memoir by P. L. Shinnie Reminiscences of an archeologist in the Sudan by P. L. Shinnie Peter Lewis Shinnie 1915-2007 by Nicholas David Peter Lewis Shinnie 1915-2007 by Krzysztof A. Grzymski
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British archaeologist
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Peter Shinnie was born on 18 January 1915 in London.
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Peter Shinnie died on 9 July 2007.
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Peter Shinnie was an archaeologist.
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