# Peter Shinnie

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{{Short description|British archaeologist}}
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| birth_name    = Peter Lewis Shinnie
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| death_place   = Calgary, Canada
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'''Peter Lewis Shinnie'''  (January 18, 1915, in [London](/source/London) – July 9, 2007, in [Calgary](/source/Calgary)) was a British [archaeologist](/source/archaeologist) and [Nubiologist](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Soba_(city))'' (1955)
* ''Ghazali, a monastery in the northern Sudan'' 1961, concerning the [Monastery in Ghazali](/source/Monastery_in_Ghazali)
* ''[Meroë](/source/Mero%C3%AB): A civilization of the Sudan'' (1967)
* ''The African Iron Age'' (1971)
* ''[Debeira](/source/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

== References ==
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