Myra Shackley

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Myra Lesley Shackley (born about 1945) is Professor of Culture Resource Management and Head of the Centre for Tourism and Visitor Management at Nottingham Business School.

She is also a priest in the Church of England and has been the Tourism Advisor of Southwell diocese since 2005. Part of her current research is concerned with the management of sacred sites as visitor attractions. She has written several books and about two hundred of academic articles and international conference papers. She has been involved in research in sub-Saharan Africa (mostly Namibia but also Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa), West Africa (Mali), Kingdom of Lo (northern Nepal/Tibet), Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh (India), Guyana (consultancy for Esmee Fairbairn Foundation), and Uzbekistan.

After gaining a Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of Southampton she spent four years as head of the laboratory at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford before becoming a lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Leicester during which time she reported on the geology of Saxon Southampton.

She has investigated the stories about Yeti creatures, as in her book Still Living? Wildmen: Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma, where she refers to a description of a family of Almas. Her research into residual Neanderthal populations took her to Mongolia in 1969 but she abandoned this research in the late 1980s.

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• Myra Shackley, Rocks and Man (London: Allen Unwin, 1977) ISBN 0-312-68799-0
• Myra L Shackley, 'The Hamwih Brickearths' in Philip Holdsworth, CBA Research Report No. 33: Excavations at Melbourne Street, Southampton, 1971-76 (Oxford: Council for British Archaeology, 1980) ISBN 0-900312-82-3
• Myra Shackley (1980), Neanderthal Man
• Myra Shackley, Wildmen: Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma (London: Thames & Hudson, 1983) ISBN 0-500-01298-9 (also published as Still Living?: Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma ISBN 0-500-01298-9)
• Myra Shackley, Environmental Archaeology (London: Allen Unwin, 1982)
• Myra Shackley, 'Palaeolithic archaeology in the Mongolian People's Republic: a report on the state of the art', Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 50 (1984)
• Myra Shackley, Using Environmental Archaeology (London: Batsford, 1985) ISBN 0-7134-4850-4
• Deanna Swaney, and Myra Shackley. Lonely Planet Survival Kit: Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia (London: Lonely Planet, 1995) ISBN 0-86442-313-6
• Myra Shackley, Wild Life Tourism (London: Thomson Learning, 1996) ISBN 0-415-11539-6
• Myra Shackley, Visitor Management: Case Studies from World Heritage Sites (London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998) ISBN 0-7506-3279-8
• Deanna Swaney, and Myra Shackley. Lonely Planet Country Guide: Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia (London: Lonely Planet, 1999) ISBN 0-86442-545-7
• Myra Shackley, Managing Sacred Sites: Service Provision and Visitor Experience (London: Thomson Learning, 2001) ISBN 0-8264-5141-1
• Deanna Swaney, Myra Shackley, Tione Chinula, and Vincent Talbot. Lonely Planet Country Guide: Zimbabwe (London: Lonely Planet, 2002) ISBN 1-74059-043-0
• Myra Shackley, 'Management challenges for religion-based attractions' in Alan Fyall, Brian Garrod, and Anna Leask (eds.), Managing Visitor Attractions: New Directions (London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003) ISBN 0-7506-5381-7
• Myra Shackley, Atlas of Travel and Tourism Development (London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006) ISBN 0-7506-6348-0