Charles Thurstan Shaw
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Chief Charles Thurstan Shaw CBE FBA FSA (27 June 1914 - 8 March 2013) [1] bụ onye ọkà mmụta ihe ochie Bekee, onye ọkachamara mbụ a zụrụ azụ ịrụ ọrụ n'ihe bụ British West Africa n'oge ahụ. Ọ bụ ọkachamara na ọdịbendị oge ochie nke Ghana na Naijiria nke oge a. O nyere aka guzobe ụlọ ọrụ agụmakwụkwọ, gụnyere Ghana National Museum na ngalaba archaeology na Mahadum Ghana. Ọ malitere ịrụ ọrụ na Mahadum Ibadan na 1960, ebe o mechara guzobe ma melite ngalaba nkà mmụta ihe ochie ya. Ọ duziri nke a ihe karịrị afọ iri tupu ọ laa ezumike nká na 1974.
Ihe ndị Shaw gwupụtara na Igbo-Ukwu, Naịjirịa kpughere ọdịbendị ụmụ amaala nke narị afọ nke itoolu nke mepụtara ọrụ dị mgbagwoju anya na ọrụ ọla nchara, na-enweghị mmetụta ọ bụla Arab ma ọ bụ Europe na ọtụtụ narị afọ tupu ebe ndị ọzọ a maara nke ọma n'oge nchọpụta ahụ. E nyere ya C.B.E. na 1972 maka onyinye ya. N'afọ 1989, e mere ya Onye isi agbụrụ na Naịjirịa.
Na mgbakwunye, Shaw rụrụ ọrụ n'ịgbasawanye nkwukọrịta banyere nkà mmụta ihe ochie nke Africa; na 1964, o guzobere West African Archaeological Newsletter, nke ọ dezigharịrị ruo 1970; site na 1971 ruo 1975, ọ dezigharị West African Journal of Archaeology.