Peter Lewis Shinnie (January 18, 1915 in London – July 9, 2007 in Calgary) was a British archaeologist and Africanist. He was the author of Meroe - A Civilization of the Sudan (1967). He was awarded the Order of the Two Niles in 2004.

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)

Peter Shinnie

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

Peter Shinnie bibliography

1915 births

2007 deaths

British expatriates in Canada

20th-century British archaeologists

Recipients of orders, decorations, and medals of Sudan

Peter Shinnie