Schuyler Jones CBE (7 February 1930 – 17 May 2024) was an American-born anthropologist and museum curator based in the United Kingdom.
He was best known for his ethnographic fieldwork in the Nuristan region of Afghanistan, as well as his role as Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, between 1985 and 1997.
After World War II Jones moved to Paris, worked as a photographer for a time and then went to Africa as a freelance photojournalist for four years.
He later settled in Greece and supported himself in part by translating technical books from German and French to English for a publisher in Germany.
In 1958, having undertaken an overland journey from Tangier to Cape Town, Jones decided to drive from Greece to India and Nepal.
Jones was appointed CBE in 1998 in the Queen's birthday honours following his retirement 'for services to the Pitt Rivers Museum'.
In 1953 he spent time in East Africa, and in 1958-9 he visited Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal.
[6] Jones was best known for his ten expeditions to Nuristan in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan between 1960 and 1970 which resulted in his best known published works.