Graham Edward ConnahAM (11 August 1934 - 25 November 2023) was a British-born archaeologist who worked extensively in Britain, West Africa and Australia.[1]
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.
In the following year, he moved to Australia to take a position at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, as lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History. He became the head of the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at UNE in 1974 after the previous head of Archaeology Isabel McBryde shifted to ANU at the end of 1973. In 1985 he was made foundation professor and head of the Department of Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology.
In the 1990s he was visiting fellow, at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University and School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University; and the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden.[2]
Connah's main research field was African archaeology, concentrating on the origins of urbanism and state in Nigeria and Uganda over the last 6000 years. African Civilizations is his best known work on this topic.[3] He was also one of the pioneers of Australian historical archaeology, with his major contribution being The Archaeology of Australia’s History.[4] He was founding editor of the journal Australasian Historical Archaeology from 1983 to 1988), and President of the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology from 1993 to 1997).[5]
^Boshoff, Estelle (6 December 2023). "Vale Emeritus Professor Graham Connah AM". Pulse news. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
^Higginbotham, Edward (2009). "In conversation with Graham Connah" (PDF). Australasian Historical Archaeology. 27: 7–21.
^Connah, Graham (2016). African Civilizations (Third ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^Connah, Graham (1988). The Archaeology of Australia's History. Cambridge University Press.
^"The Australian Academy of the Humanities Academy Fellows".
Graham Edward Connah AM (11 August 1934 - 25 November 2023) was a British-born archaeologist who worked extensively in Britain, West Africa and Australia...
moat 6 m (20 ft) deep. This was excavated in the early 1960s by GrahamConnah. Connah estimated that its construction if spread out over five dry seasons...
around seventy in Britain. This site was excavated again in 1961 by GrahamConnah, who kept thorough stratigraphic documentation. In 2011, the Gathering...
their native language, which belongs to the Bantu language family. GrahamConnah described Swahili culture as at least partially urban, mercantile, and...
a city a league wide and defended by a moat. However, archaeologist GrahamConnah later cast doubt on Pereira's depiction, suggesting that Pereira might...
excavations done in the small village of Kibiro by archaeologist GrahamConnah. Connah first excavated Kibiro in 1989. The site of Kibero consisted of...
time. Because of the similarities between the two sites, archaeologist GrahamConnah believes that "Nok artwork represents a style that was adopted by a...
time. Because of the similarities between the two sites, archaeologist GrahamConnah believes that "Nok artwork represents a style that was adopted by a...
location of Damasak is probably not its original location. Historian GrahamConnah visited the area in 1965 and a group of local men reported that the...
Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology under the editorship of GrahamConnah. This provided the only venue for publishing the results of historical...
with Cameroon. It was first excavated in 1965 by British archaeologist GrahamConnah. Radiocarbon dating showed the occupations at Daima cover a period beginning...
and Libya. The precise location of Njimi has yet to be determined. Connah, Graham (1987). African Civilizations: Precolonial cities and states in tropical...
to or played with: Afro-Mystic, Ben Goldberg, Brian "Head" Welch, GrahamConnah's Sour Note Seven, Jess Jones Quartet, Junk Genius, Laplante/Dunn/Smith...
Other Whereabouts 2007 – Two Rooms of Uranium Inside 83 Markers with GrahamConnah 2001 – The Only Song We Know with Good For Cows 2001 – Good for Cows...
of the causewayed enclosure at Knap Hill in Wiltshire, England, by GrahamConnah. The first season of excavations at Degannwy Castle in Wales; the excavation...
pp. 621-627. University of Zimbabwe Publications, Harare, Zimbabwe Graham, Connah (2004). Forgotten Africa An Introduction to its Archaeology. New York...
for his excavations related to Herod the Great (d. 2010) August 11 - GrahamConnah, English-born archaeologist September 2 - Donald B. Redford, Canadian...
August 2012 at archive.today The archaeology of Australia's history, By GrahamConnah, John Mulvaney, Douglas Hobbs Coutts P.J.F & J.P. Wesson, Some Comments...
of world art. Laurence King Publishing. p. 72. ISBN 1-85669-377-5. GrahamConnah (2004). Forgotten Africa: an introduction to its archaeology. Routledge...
Hugh Neilson Gordon Orchardson Norman Stevenson Hugh Walker Wales Frank Connah Llewellyn Evans Arthur Law Robert Lyne Wilfred Pallott Frederick Phillips...
Lazer.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Graham, Connah (1993). The archaeology of Australia's history. Cambridge [England]:...
musulman et de la Méditerranée. Edisud. p. 274. Retrieved 12 July 2012. Connah, Graham (29 March 2001). African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective...
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