Alec Campbell (archaeologist)

Alexander Colin Campbell (16 April 1932 – 24 November 2012) was an archaeologist and museum curator in Botswana.

Transferring to the agricultural department as a tsetse fly officer in 1954, he entered Rhodes University in 1959, graduating in SiNdebele and Social Anthropology.

Becoming a district officer in the Bechuanaland Protectorate in 1962, Campbell ran the country's first house-to-house census in 1963–4.

After independence he became senior warden of Botswana's Department of Wildlife and National Parks.

[2] In the 1970s Campbell worked to overturn the previous consensus that Botswana had little Stone Age activity.