Bernard Fagg

Bernard Fagg ( born December 8, 1915 in Upper Norwood, now a district of the London Borough of Croydon, † 14 August 1987 in Oxford, England, UK ) was a British archaeologist and Museum curator.

Life

Fagg studied Classical Archaeology and Ethnology at Downing College, University of Cambridge. After graduating there he began in 1939 for the British colonial administration in the city of Jos to work in Nigeria. He led excavations in 1944 Rop rock shelter, a Abri in Jos Plateau through in the middle of the country. There tools from the early Stone Age, and about 2000 years old pottery shards were found.

Fagg, the first archaeologist who finds was made ​​to the complex, which was later named the Nok culture, after the first terracotta figurines were found in the village of Nok. He led the first scientific excavations in the square Taruga. Both Terakottafiguren and iron slag with traces of charcoal were found that make a dating to the fourth and third century BC possible.

After the founding of the Department of Antiquities in Nigeria in 1947, he was transferred by the colonial administration in this department. In 1952 he established the first open to the public standing museum in the country in Jos, in which his findings were issued, and in 1957 director of the museum. After Nigeria's independence in 1960 Fagg in 1963 curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum in the university city of Oxford in England.

Works

• Nok terracottas. Ethnographic, Lagos, among others 1977, ISBN 0-905788-00-1.