# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thurstan-shaw
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:00:45.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thurstan-shaw"
name: "Thurstan Shaw"
slug: "thurstan-shaw"
description: "Chief Charles Thurstan Shaw CBE FBA FSA was an English archaeologist, the first trained specialist to work in what was then British West Africa. He specialized in the ancient cultures of present-day Ghana and Nigeria. He helped establish academic institutions, including the Ghana National Museum and the archaeology department at the University of Ghana. He began working with the University of Ibadan in 1960, where he later founded and developed its archaeology department. He led this for more than 10 years before his retirement in 1974."
tagline: "English archaeologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thurstan_shaw_1967.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-06-27"
deathDate: "2013-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.51
  momentum:             7.105263157894737
  historical:           6.806480000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Charles Thurstan Shaw"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "ثورستان شاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurstan_Shaw"
    title: "Thurstan Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Thurstan_Shaw"
    title: "Charles Thurstan Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Thurstan_Shaw"
    title: "Charles Thurstan Shaw"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Thurstan_Shaw"
    title: "Charles Thurstan Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Thurstan_Shaw"
    title: "Charles Thurstan Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Thurstan_Shaw"
    title: "Charles Thurstan Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5082948"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump