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{{short description|Canadian archaeologist}} |
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'''Robert John McGhee''' (born 1941) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[archaeologist]] and author specializing in the archaeology of the Arctic. |
'''Robert John McGhee''' (born 1941) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[archaeologist]] and author, specializing in the archaeology of the Arctic. |
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McGhee was born in [[Wiarton, Ontario]], in 1941. He studied at the [[University of Toronto]] and the [[University of Calgary]], receiving a [[Ph.D.]] in 1968. McGhee worked in the [[Middle East]] as a student. He went on to study the remains of [[Martin Frobisher]]'s expedition searching for the [[Northwest Passage]], a 2000-year-old village in the [[Siberia]]n peninsula and an [[Inuit]] village at [[Resolute, Nunavut|Resolute]], [[Nunavut]]. He was Curator of Western Arctic Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, now the [[Canadian Museum of History]], until he retired in 2008. He was then named emeritus curator, but lost this status in 2012 when his wife, [[Patricia Sutherland]], was let go by the museum.<ref>{{cite book |first=Shelley |last=Wright |title=Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change |series=McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series |volume=75 |location=Montreal |publisher=McGill-Queens University Press |year=2014 |isbn=9780773596108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UhZIBAAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+McGhee%22+%22Patricia+Sutherland%22&pg=PT50 |page=27 }}</ref> |
McGhee was born in [[Wiarton, Ontario]], in 1941. He studied at the [[University of Toronto]] and the [[University of Calgary]], receiving a [[Ph.D.]] in 1968. McGhee worked in the [[Middle East]] as a student. He went on to study the remains of [[Martin Frobisher]]'s expedition searching for the [[Northwest Passage]], a 2000-year-old village in the [[Siberia]]n peninsula and an [[Inuit]] village at [[Resolute, Nunavut|Resolute]], [[Nunavut]]. He was Curator of Western Arctic Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, now the [[Canadian Museum of History]], until he retired in 2008. He was then named emeritus curator, but lost this status in 2012 when his wife, [[Patricia Sutherland]], was let go by the museum.<ref>{{cite book |first=Shelley |last=Wright |title=Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change |series=McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series |volume=75 |location=Montreal |publisher=McGill-Queens University Press |year=2014 |isbn=9780773596108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UhZIBAAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+McGhee%22+%22Patricia+Sutherland%22&pg=PT50 |page=27 }}</ref> |
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Robert John McGhee (born 1941) is a Canadian archaeologist and author, specializing in the archaeology of the Arctic.
McGhee was born in Wiarton, Ontario, in 1941. He studied at the University of Toronto and the University of Calgary, receiving a Ph.D. in 1968. McGhee worked in the Middle East as a student. He went on to study the remains of Martin Frobisher's expedition searching for the Northwest Passage, a 2000-year-old village in the Siberian peninsula and an Inuit village at Resolute, Nunavut. He was Curator of Western Arctic Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, now the Canadian Museum of History, until he retired in 2008. He was then named emeritus curator, but lost this status in 2012 when his wife, Patricia Sutherland, was let go by the museum.[1]
He was awarded the Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2000.[2] McGhee is a former president of the Canadian Archaeological Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Selected bibliography
[edit]- The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History Of The Arctic World (2005) ISBN 0-19-518368-1
- The Arctic Voyages Of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure (2001) ISBN 0-7735-2235-2
- Ancient People of the Arctic (1996) ISBN 0-7748-0553-6
References
[edit]- ^ Wright, Shelley (2014). Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Vol. 75. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. p. 27. ISBN 9780773596108.
- ^ "Royal Canadian Geographical Society Massey Medal 2000". Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
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