Photo Credit: Photo of Livingstone Museum, Zambia by Vberger, Commonswiki, 2003. Map Credit: Google Maps.
Links to General Resources
Africa.com Zimbabwe Museum Guide
Zimbabwe Country Profile page from UCLA African Studies Center
Link to Zimbabwe heritage laws page from the World Wide Web Library of African Archaeology
Oxford Bibliographies States of Zimbabwe Plateau and Zambezi Valley
Stanford University Libraries Africa South of the Sahara Zimbabwe page
UNESCO World Heritage Centre Zimbabwe page
Archaeology, Paleoanthropology, and Cultural Heritage Project/Institute/Society Websites
Archaeology and Traditions in Eastern Zimbabwe project page from the Archaeology Unit of the University of Zimbabwe and UIB Global University of Bergen
National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
Friends of the Natural History Museum, Bulawayo Facebook page
Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) Zimbabwe Gallery page
Zimbabwe Museum of of Human Sciences Facebook page
Zimbabwe Rock Art photos Flickr page
News and Media
African Rock Art of the Southern Zone from the Hielbrunn Timeline of Art History
Africa's Most Unique Landscape? video from CNN Inside Africa
BBC Lost Kingdoms of Africa - Great Zimbabwe film program page
Great Zimbabwe (Eleventh - Fifteenth Centuries) from the Hielbrunn Timeline of Art History
Mapungubwe (ca. 1050-1270) from the Hielbrunn Timeline of Art History
NOVA PBS Mysteries of Great Zimbabwe page
Wonders of the African World: Lost Cities of the South PBS page
Links to Recently Published (2014-2016) Scholarly Journal Articles Concerning Archaeology and Material Cultural Heritage in Zimbabwe
2016
Acheulean prepared core technologies from the eastern Zimbabwe Escarpment, Maunganidze (Manicaland). Julio Mercader, Robert Patalano, Julien Favreau, Makarius Itambu, Joshua Kumbani, Happinos Marufu. 2016. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 8:47-62. DOI:10.10-16/j.jasrep.2016.05.046.
Archaeology, baobabs and drought: Cultural proxies and envrionmental data from the Mapungubwe landscape, southern Africa. Thomas N. Huffman & Stephan Woodborne. 2016. The Holocene 26(3):464-470. DOI:10.1177/0959683615609753.
Book review of Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water & Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe (Joost Fontein, 2015, James Currey). Jonathan R. Walz. 2016. Journal of African Archaeology 14(1):103-104. DOI:10.3213/2191-5784-10286.
Imperceptible realities: an ethnoarchaeological perspective on the acquisition, ownership and management of cattle by women in southeastern Zimbabwe. Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi. 2016. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2016.1220054.
Post-colonial heritage conservation in Africa: perspectives from drystone wall restorations at Khami World Heritage site, Zimbabwe. Shadreck Chirikure, Tawanda Mukwende, & Pascall Taruvinga. 2016. International Journal of Heritage Studies 22(2):165-178. DOI:10.1080/13527258.2015.1103300.
Seen but Not Told: Re-mapping Great Zimbabwe Using Archival Data, Satellite Imagery and Geographical Information Systems. Shadreck Chirikure, Foreman Bandama, Kundishora Chipunza, Godfrey Mahachi, Edward Matenga, Paul Mupira, & Webber Ndoro. 2016. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. DOI:10.1007/s10816-016-9275-1.
Soapstone birds in soapstone nests: ethnohistorical interpretation of the Zimbabwe birds based on sixteenth- to nineteenth-century Portuguese documents. Gai Roufe. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 51(2):178-196. DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2016.1173307.
The Production, Distribution and Consumption of Metals and Alloys at Great Zimbabwe. F. Bandama, A. J. Moffett, T. P. Thondhlana, and S. Chirikure. 2016. Archaeometry. DOI:10.1111/arcm.12248.
Towards a complete documentary heritage of Zimbabwe. Whither oral history? Forget Chaterera & Samson Mutsagondo. Information Development 32(3):701-708. DOI:10.1177/0266666914568574.
Using Contingency Valuation Approaches to Assess Sustainable Cultural Heritage Tourism Use and Conservation of the Outstanding Universal Values (OUV) at Great Zimbabwe World Heritage Site in Zimbabwe. Nyasha A. Gurira & Patrick Ngulube. 2016. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 225:291-302. DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.06.028.
2015
Book review of Metals from K2 and Mapungubwe, Middle Limpopo Valley: a technological study of early second millennium material culture, with an emphasis on conservation (Farahnaz Koleini, 2014, Archaeopress, BAR). Thomas Panganayi Thondhlana. 2015. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50(2):261-264. DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2015.1012794.
When ceramic sociology meets material science: sociological and techno-logical aspects of crucibles and pottery from Mapungubwe, Southern Africa. S. Chirikure, S. Hall, T. Rehren. 2015. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 40:23–32.
2014
How Important was the Presence of Elephants as a Determinant of the Zhizo Settlement of the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape? T. Forssman, B. Page & J. Selier. 2014. Journal of African Archaeology 12(1):75-87. DOI 10.3213/2191-5784-10250.
Ritual Space in the Zimbabwe Culture. Thomas N. Huffman. 2014. Ethnoarchaeology 6(1):4-39. DOI:10.1179/1944289013Z.0000000008.
Zimbabwe Culture before Mapungubwe: New Evidence from Mapela Hill, South-Western Zimbabwe. Shadreck Chirikure, Munyaradzi Manyanga, A. Mark Pollard, Foreman Bandama, Godfrey Mahachi, Innocent Pikirayi. 2014. PLoS ONE 9(10):e111224. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0111224.
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