I. W. Cornwall

Cornwall died on 18 November 1994. He was married twice and had two children.

As a textbook author, Cornwall first published Bones for the Archaeologist in 1956 and its sequel Soils for the Archaeologist in 1958. During the 1960s, some of Cornwall's books included The World of Ancient Man in 1964 and Prehistoric Animals and their Hunters in 1968. For children, Cornwall first released The Making of Man in 1960 before the release of Hunters Half Moon in 1967. His final book was the 1970 publication Ice Ages: Their Nature and Effects. Of his children's works, The Making of Man received the Carnegie Medal in 1961.

At London, Cornwall worked as an archaeologist during a 1954 excavation of partial human skeletons in Tell es-Sultan. At Tell es-Sultan, Cornwall sketched the overlapping bones found in each layer and identified which parts of the body they belonged to. In his 1956 paper, Cornwall theorized about the burial and exhumation practices that occurred with the Tell es-Sultan skeletons. Other excavation research that Cornwall took part in the late 1950s include sites in York and Knossos.

For his first job, Cornwall sold vacuum cleaners. Other jobs that Cornwall held during the 1930s included working as a teacher and making pharmaceutical drugs. From 1939 to 1945, Cornwall worked in the censorship department for the Ministry of Information. While attending the University of London, Cornwall started as a secretary for the university in 1948 before he began teaching archaeology in 1951. Cornwall continued to teach at the archaeology department at London until his retirement in 1974.

Ian Wolfran Cornwall (28 November 1909 – 18 November 1994) was a British archaeologist, academic and author. After working for the United Kingdom in their censorship department from 1939 to 1945, Cornwall began working for the University of London as a secretary in 1948. Years later, Cornwall starting teaching archaeology at London in 1951 and continued to teach at the university until 1974. While at London, Cornwall was part of a 1954 skeletal excavation at Tell es-Sultan. He also took part at excavations held at York and Knossos during the late 1950s. As an author, Cornwall wrote several books during the late 1950s to early 1970s. Of his works, The Making of Man received the 1961 Carnegie Medal.

On 28 November 1909, Cornwall was born in Coonoor, India. As a teenager, Cornwall attended school in Berkshire, England at Wellington College. For his post-secondary education, Cornwall first graduated from St John's College, Cambridge in 1931 with a Bachelor of Arts. He later studied archaeology at the University of London for his postgraduate studies in the late 1940s and received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1952.