Graham Edward Connah AM (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.
In 1961 he obtained a position as archaeologist in the Department of Antiquities, with the Federal Government of Nigeria.
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.
[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.