Statens museer för världskultur - Etnografiska museet
Pitt Rivers Museum
curator
Bernard Evelyn Buller
Fagg
Fagg, Bernard Evelyn Buller
1.3.0 2026-08-10 Fagg, Bernard Evelyn Buller Rådata 1127931 name Statens museer för världskultur - Etnografiska museet SMVK-EM Namn http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1127931 - id - Government archaeologist in Nigeria. Curator at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1964-1975. Brother of African art scholar William Buller Fagg. "After graduation he began to work for the British colonial administration in Jos, Nigeria, in 1939. He excavated the Rop rock shelter on the Jos Plateau in 1944, a site that contained both early stone-age implements and later artifacts, including pottery about 2000 years old. Fagg first encountered archaeological finds of what became later known as the Nok culture, after the village of Nok where the first terracotta figurines where found. He undertook a controlled evacuation of the site at Taruga, finding both terracotta figurines and iron slag with radiocarbon dates from about the fourth and third centuries BC. In 1947 Fagg was appointed as the assistant surveyor of antiquities of the newly founded Department of Antiquities of the colonial administration. In 1952 he founded the National Museum in Jos, the first public museum in Nigeria. He became head in 1957 after the first director Kenneth Murray retired. After Nigeria became independent, Fagg became the curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in 1963." Wikipedia, 2016-04-20. 1915-12-08, 1987-08-14, Dan Hicks 2013. Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum.In Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 1-15. http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/world.htm, The Museum, Jos, N. Nigeria, Råbergs resa genom Sahara i bil (1952) http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/fotografi/3102739 https://kulturnav.org/152de8ab-07d6-4d7d-b075-2809a416ebe3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Fagg http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/html/1127931 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/xml/1127931 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/rdf/1127931
Beskrivning
Government archaeologist in Nigeria. Curator at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1964-1975. Brother of African art scholar William Buller Fagg. "After graduation he began to work for the British colonial administration in Jos, Nigeria, in 1939. He excavated the Rop rock shelter on the Jos Plateau in 1944, a site that contained both early stone-age implements and later artifacts, including pottery about 2000 years old. Fagg first encountered archaeological finds of what became later known as the Nok culture, after the village of Nok where the first terracotta figurines where found. He undertook a controlled evacuation of the site at Taruga, finding both terracotta figurines and iron slag with radiocarbon dates from about the fourth and third centuries BC. In 1947 Fagg was appointed as the assistant surveyor of antiquities of the newly founded Department of Antiquities of the colonial administration. In 1952 he founded the National Museum in Jos, the first public museum in Nigeria. He became head in 1957 after the first director Kenneth Murray retired. After Nigeria became independent, Fagg became the curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in 1963." Wikipedia, 2016-04-20.
Tidpunkt / födelse
Tidpunkt / död
Källor
Dan Hicks 2013. Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum.In Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 1-15. http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/world.htm
Adress
The Museum, Jos, N. Nigeria
Händelse / var närvarande vid
Råbergs resa genom Sahara i bil (1952)
Visat namn
Libris-id / samma som
Nigeria, Storbritannien