Graham Connah
British-born archaeologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Graham Edward Connah was a British-born archaeologist who worked extensively in Britain, West Africa and Australia. Connah was born in Cheshire, UK on 11 August 1934, and educated at Wirral Grammar School, and Cambridge University, receiving a PhD in 1959, after which he was a research assistant until 1961. Among his influences were David Clarke and Paul Ashby. In 1961 he obtained a position as archaeologist in the Department of Antiquities, with the Federal Government of Nigeria. He next served as a research fellow, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1964; then senior research fellow, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan in 1968; and senior lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Ibadan in 1970.
Graham Connah's Published Works
Published Works
- Three Thousand Years in Africa: Man and His Environment in the Lake Chad Region of Nigeria (1983) (84)
- African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective (1987) (53)
- The Daima Sequence and the Prehistoric Chronology of the Lake Chad Region of Nigeria (1976) (48)
- The Archaeology of Benin (1976) (44)
- African civilizations : precolonial cities and states in tropical Africa : an archaeological perspective (1988) (44)
- The Archaeology of Australia's History (1975) (40)
- The archaeology of Benin: Excavations and other researches in and around Benin City, Nigeria (1975) (39)
- Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to Its Archaeology (2004) (38)
- "Of the Hut I Builded": The Archaeology of Australia's History (1990) (37)
- Archaeology in Benin (1972) (33)
- Transformations in Africa : essays on Africa's later past (1998) (31)
- The salt of Bunyoro: seeking the origins of an African Kingdom (1991) (29)
- Archeological Implications of Traditional House Construction Among the Nchumuru of Northern Ghana [and Comments and Reply] (1985) (28)
- Historical Archaeology in Africa: An Appropriate Concept? (2007) (26)
- Kibiro: The Salt of Bunyoro, Past and Present (1997) (26)
- Stamp-collecting or increasing understanding? The Dilemma of Historical Archaeology (1983) (25)
- African Civilizations: Precolonial Cities and States in Tropical Africa: An Archaeological Perspective. (1990) (25)
- African city walls. A neglected source (2000) (21)
- Writing about Archaeology (2010) (19)
- Historical Reality: Archaeological Reality. Excavations at Regentville, Penrith, New South Wales, 1985 (1986) (17)
- African Civilizations. Precolonial Cities and States in Tropical Africa: An Archaeological Perspective (1988) (17)
- Three Thousand Years in Africa: Man and His Environment in the Lake Chad Region of Nigeria. (1982) (17)
- The cultural and chronological context of Kibiro, Uganda (1997) (15)
- Salt-Production at Kibiro (1990) (15)
- Problem Orientation in Australian Historical Archaeology (2003) (14)
- The archaeology of frustrated ambition: An Australian case-study (1998) (14)
- The Lake Innes Estate: Privilege and servitude in nineteenth-century Australia (2001) (14)
- Australian field archaeology : a guide to techniques (1983) (14)
- Contained Communities in Tropical Africa (2000) (12)
- New Light on the Benin City Walls (1967) (11)
- Archaeology at the University of New England, 1975-6 (1976) (11)
- The Same under a Different Sky? A country estate in nineteenth century New South Wales (2007) (11)
- An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to 400 A.D. (review) (2001) (10)
- Mining the Archives: A Pottery Sequence for Borno, Nigeria (2003) (10)
- Archaeological Research in Benin City, 1961-1964 (1963) (10)
- An archaeological exploration in southern Borno (1984) (10)
- A hierarchy of servitude: ceramics at Lake Innes Estate, New South Wales (2007) (10)
- Current Research at the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of New England (1975) (9)
- Pathology in 700-year-old Nigerian bones. Query: sickle-cell infarcts. (1971) (9)
- Remanent Magnetism and Beaker Chronology (1962) (8)
- Is There a Place for the Proton Magnetometer in Australian Field Archaeology (2010) (8)
- A Commodity Problem in Prehistoric Borno (1989) (8)
- Aborigine and settler: archaeological air photography (1978) (8)
- Polished stone axes in Benin (1964) (7)
- Pottery making in the village of use near Benin City, Nigeria (1969) (6)
- Urbanism and the Archaeological visibility of African complex societies (2008) (6)
- Lake Innes: Identifying Socioeconomic Status in the Archaeological Record (2009) (5)
- Snails and Archaeology (1964) (4)
- Radiocarbon Dating for Knap Hill (1969) (4)
- The power of walls: fortifications in ancient northeastern Africa. Proceedings of the international workshop held at the University of Cologne 4th–7th August 2011 (2014) (4)
- Battlefield Casualty: The Archaeology of a Captured Gun (2009) (4)
- Creating the canon: materializing Australian historical archaeology * (2007) (3)
- A hoard of stone beads near Lake Chad, Nigeria (1996) (3)
- Man and a Lake (1981) (3)
- Mollusca utilization in prehistoric Borno : a case of human preference (1995) (3)
- Artifact of empire: The tale of a gun (2002) (2)
- An Archaeological Experiment with the ‘4c’ Mine Detector (1962) (2)
- Taking the pulse of African archaeology: The Society of Africanist Archaeologists 19th Biennial Conference Frankfurt am Main, Germany 8–11 September 2008 (2009) (2)
- Resource exploitation and population aggregation: the case of Kibiro (2010) (2)
- Bibliography: Graham Edward Connah (2012) (2)
- The purposes of archaeology (1997) (2)
- Archaeological Practice in Africa (2013) (2)
- A pottery corpus for Daima (2007) (2)
- Book review: Knowing Africa's archaeological past, by Stahl, A.B. (ed.) African archaeology: A critical introduction (2005) (2)
- Writing Africa's archaeological past (2004) (2)
- Archaeological Filed Research in the Western Rift Valley of Uganda (1994) (1)
- From Cambridge to Lake Chad: Life in archaeology 1956–1971 (2019) (1)
- Archaeological Investigations at Risdon Cove Historic Site 1978-1980 by Angela McGowan (1987) (1)
- Scouring the Clip: Boom and Burn on Woolscour Lane (2016) (1)
- American historical archaeology and the search for ‘meaning’ (1989) (1)
- Archaeological Investigations at Risdon Cove Historic Site 1978-1980 [Book Review] (1987) (1)
- Welcome back: The return of the Panafrican Congress (1996) (1)
- Retrieving the Cultural Biography of a Gun (2013) (1)
- Early farming communities on the eastern shores of Lake Albert and along the lower Victoria Nile (summary) (1994) (1)
- Writing Africas archaeological past: who writes for whom? (2001) (1)
- DESERTED SETTLEMENTS WITH A STORY : Later farmers in southern Africa (2004) (0)
- Modelling the African Past [Book Review] (2002) (0)
- ‘ONE BEAUTIFUL GARDEN’ : Production and power amongst the Great Lakes (2004) (0)
- Publish and be damned? (2004) (0)
- Writing About Archaeology: Creating the canon (2010) (0)
- The Archaeology and Architecture of Farm Buildings at Saumarez Station, Armidale, New South Wales (2021) (0)
- Early States and State Formation in Africa (2012) (0)
- Professional Inaugural Address: The purposes of archaeology (1997) (0)
- THE TESTIMONY OF THE DEAD : Life in the Upemba Depression (2004) (0)
- Achieving power: the West African forest and its fringes (2015) (0)
- Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa. Susan Keech McIntosh (2000) (0)
- Book Review: The Land of Houlouf: Genesis of a Chadic Polity, 1900 BC–AD 1800.By Augustin F. C. Holl. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Number 35, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2002, xvi+271 pp., ISBN 0-915703-52-1 (2003) (0)
- J. Desmond Clark (ed.), The Cambridge History of Africa; Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to c. 500 B.C. . (Gen. Eds.: J. D. Fage and Roland Oliver). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 1157 pp., £48.00. (1984) (0)
- Book Review: The first Africans: African archaeology from the earliest toolmakers to most recent foragers (2009) (0)
- CHURCH AND STATE : Survival in Ethiopia (2004) (0)
- THE POWER OF METAL : The origins of African iron-working (2004) (0)
- Opportunity and constraint: the West African savanna (2015) (0)
- Writing About Archaeology: The aftermath (2010) (0)
- The So Pots of Central Africa: Memories of the past (2019) (0)
- JENNÉ-JENO : An early city on the Middle Niger (2004) (0)
- Lawrence Barham & Peter Mitchell. The first Africans: African archaeology from the earliest toolmakers to most recent foragers. xviii+602 pages, 117 illustrations, 5 tables. 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-84796-4 hardback £50 & $99; 978-0-521-61265-4 paperback £18.99 & $36.99 (2009) (0)
- OUTSIDERS ON THE INSIDE : The impact of European expansion (2004) (0)
- FACING TWO WORLDS : The trading settlements of the East African coast (2004) (0)
- What are the common denominators (2016) (0)
- Alistair G. Paterson. The lost legions: culture contact in colonial Australia . xx+268 pages, 37 illustrations, 11 tables. 2008. Lanham (MD): AltaMira; 978-0-7591-0683-3 hardback £51.95; 978-0-7591-0684-0 paperback £21.95. (2010) (0)
- POTS AND PEOPLE : Early farmers south of the Equator (2004) (0)
- An archaeology of Australia since 1788 [Book Review] (2011) (0)
- PRODUCING FOOD : Adaptation in North-East and East Africa (2004) (0)
- Knowing Africa's Archaeological Past: African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction, edited by Ann Brower Stahl, 2005. Malden (MA) & Oxford: Blackwell Publishing; ISBN 1-4051-0155-5 hardback, £65 & US$71.95; ISBN 1-4051-0156-3 paperback, £19.99 & US$36.95; 490 pp., ills. (2005) (0)
- AKSUM AT THE CUTTING EDGE (2013) (0)
- Publishers, editors and referees (2010) (0)
- The process of writing (2010) (0)
- Kenyan pots and potters (1990) (0)
- Image and reality : Ceramics on Angkorian temple reliefs in Cambodia AEDEEN CREMIN (2014) (0)
- Sudanic genesis: Nubia (2016) (0)
- Qasr Ibrim House 1037: Resurrecting an Excavation: Resurrecting an Excavation (2016) (0)
- Isolation: the Ethiopian and Eritrean Highlands (2016) (0)
- BENIN CITY : From forest power to world fame (2004) (0)
- Writing About Archaeology: Turning data into text (2010) (0)
- Three Thousand Years in Africa. Man and His Environment in the Lake Chad Region of Nigeria (1982) (0)
- Settlement growth and emerging polities: South Africa (2016) (0)
- Origins: social change on the lower Nile (2015) (0)
- African Civilizations: Cattle, ivory, and gold: social complexity in Zambezia (2015) (0)
- Images of Africa (2003) (0)
- Indian Ocean networks: the East African coast and islands (2015) (0)
- Central Africa: the Upemba Depression, Interlacustrine Region, and Far West (2016) (0)
- Ingereth Macfarlane with Mary-Jane Mountain & Robert Paton (ed.). Many Exchanges: archaeology, history, community and the work of Isabel McBryde (Aboriginal History Monograph 11). xxxvi+412 pages, 81 illustrations, 15 tables. 2005. Canberra: Aboriginal History Inc.; 0-9585637-7-2 paperback Aus$49.95 (2006) (0)
- Paul Ashbee 23rd June 1918-19 August 2009 an appreciation (2009) (0)
- Writing About Archaeology: Readership determines form (2010) (0)
- African Historical Archaeologies edited by Andrew M. Reid and Paul J. Lane (2004) (0)
- Learning from others (2010) (0)
- Potential and realisation in the archaeology of Benin City (2004) (0)
- Book review: Many Exchanges: Archaeology, history, community and the work of Isabel McBryde, by MacFarlane I et al. (2006) (0)
- AFRICA : The birthplace of humanity (2004) (0)
- African Civilizations: The Mediterranean frontier: North Africa (2015) (0)
- Writing About Archaeology: Pleasing everyone (2010) (0)
- Writing About Archaeology: The publication process (2010) (0)
- ANCIENT EGYPT : 3000 years of achievement (2004) (0)
- STONE TOOLS AND ADAPTATION : The origins of the genus Homo (2004) (0)
- The Daboya Sequence (1993) (0)
- The African Iron Age . Edited by P. L. Shinnie. 9¼ × 6. Pp. x + 281 + 8 pls.+ 21 figs.+ 12 maps. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. £3. (1972) (0)
- PROJECTING POWER : Great Zimbabwe and related sites (2004) (0)
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