Peter Shinnie

{{Short description|British archaeologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = P. L. Shinnie | image =  | alt =  | caption = | birth_name = Peter Lewis Shinnie | birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|01|18}} | birth_place = London, United Kingdom | death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|07|09|1915|01|18}} | death_place = Calgary, Canada | nationality =  | fields = | workplaces = University of Ghana<br>University of Khartoum<br>University of Calgary | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | awards = Order of the Two Niles | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = | signature =  | signature_type =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }}

'''Peter Lewis Shinnie''' (January 18, 1915, in London – July 9, 2007, in Calgary) was a British archaeologist and Nubiologist.<ref name="Gdn obit">{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Peter |title=Peter Shinnie |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/oct/30/guardianobituaries.obituaries |website=The Guardian |access-date=23 March 2024 |date=30 October 2007}}</ref> He was the author of ''Meroe: A Civilization of the Sudan'' (1967).<ref name="Gdn obit" /> He was awarded the Order of the Two Niles in 2004.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=David |first=Nicholas |date=2008-06-01 |title=Peter Lewis Shinnie 1915–2007 |journal=African Archaeological Review |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=125–129 |doi=10.1007/s10437-008-9019-z |issn=1572-9842 |s2cid=162296651 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pigott |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rc8xNmt4eZkC&dq=%22Order+of+the+Two+Niles%22&pg=PA9 |title=Canada in Sudan: War Without Borders |date=2009-02-16 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=978-1-77070-514-2 |language=en |access-date=15 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322190423/https://books.google.com/books?id=rc8xNmt4eZkC&dq=%22Order+of+the+Two+Niles%22&pg=PA9 |archive-date=22 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Professor Peter Shinnie |language=en |newspaper=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/professor-peter-shinnie-2fplvvk36qs |url-status=live |access-date=2023-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313213013/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-peter-shinnie-2fplvvk36qs |archive-date=13 March 2023 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

==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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