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Shadreck Chirikure deploys decolonial thought and indeed decolonial theory as he delves into indigenous African ideation to decolonize archaeology. What is delivered is a refreshing and indeed original re-reading of Great Zimbabwe and its location in world archaeology. This is indeed a timely and essential book coming out at a moment of insurgent and resurgent planetary decolonization.

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Great Zimbabwe

Conditioned by local ways of knowing and doing, Great Zimbabwe develops a new interpretation of the famous World Heritage site of Great Zimbabwe.

It combines archaeological knowledge, including recent material from the authors excavations, with native concepts and philosophies. Working from a large data set has made it possible, for the first time, to develop an archaeology of Great Zimbabwe that is informed by finds and observations from the entire site and wider landscape. In so doing, the book strongly contributes towards decolonising African and world archaeology. Written in an accessible manner, the book is aimed at undergraduate students, graduate students, and practicing archaeologists both in Africa and across the globe.

The book will also make contributions to the broader field such as African Studies, African History, and World Archaeology through its emphasis on developing synergies between local ways of knowing and the archaeology.

Shadreck Chirikure is a Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Archaeological Materials Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town and British Academy Global Professor, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.

Routledge Studies in African Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

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Samuel F. Derbyshire

Great Zimbabwe

Reclaiming a Confiscated Past

Shadreck Chirikure

For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-African-Archaeology-and-Cultural-Heritage/book-series/RSAACH

Great Zimbabwe

Reclaiming a Confiscated Past

Shadreck Chirikure

First published 2021

by Routledge

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2021 Shadreck Chirikure

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ISBN: 978-0-367-40999-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-81041-2 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India

For Geraldine and our boys Tawana, Tadana, and Tafara

Contents

PART I
Learning, relearning, and unlearning Great Zimbabwe

PART II
Objects, their context, and meaning

PART III
Native cosmologies and ways of knowing

Great Zimbabwe

Map of Zimbabwe showing the location of Great Zimbabwe

Map of the landscape around Great Zimbabwe showing boundaries of estates and surrounding farms. Note that Hall plots Mugabes kraal on the Hill Complex. Two major public roads pass through the site (redrawn from Hall 1905: 7)

Photograph of Dzimbahwe Hill, a sacred shrine, dongo, and abode of ancestors

Photograph showing the imposing and aesthetically pleasing dry stone masonry of the Great Enclosure (viewed from the north-west)

Map of Zimbabwe showing the approximate distribution of modern ethnic groups. The name Karanga, now applied to southerners, was applied to the northerners before colonisation

Map of Great Zimbabwe showing walled and unwalled settlements

Map of the landscape around Great Zimbabwe showing boundary demarcations made in the 1890s and the 720-hectare large Great Zimbabwe (redrawn from Musindo 2019)

Photograph of Dzimbahwe Hill or Hill Complex covered in guti (mist), in August 2018

Map of Zimbabwe showing natural farming regions originally defined by Vincent, Thomas, and Staples (1961)

Map showing the distribution of chiefdoms and ethnic groups in south-central Zimbabwe (modified after Mazarire 2013b)

Map of Great Zimbabwe sketched by R.N. Hall showing a road passing between the Hill and the Valley Enclosures (from Hall 1905: 9)

Sketch map of the Hill Complex by R.N. Hall showing a parallel passage inside the Western Enclosure. The entrance was closed when the internal wall collapsed

Map of Great Zimbabwe showing the location of golf courses that were discontinued in the 1970s (based on the base map from Musindo 2019)

Photograph showing Great Zimbabwe Site Museum and Lilian Hodges Hut on the right: this was built on top of the Camp Ruins

Photograph of the curio shop and surrounds where house floors and artefacts were recovered. Owing to the low regard for unwalled settlements, the curio shop was built on hugely significant remains. This area is close to the access to the Hill, again emphasising the little regard for misha without dry stone walls

Map of Great Zimbabwe showing excavations by amateurs and antiquarians

Map showing excavations by professional archaeologists

Photograph of imported ceramics from Great Zimbabwe. Top left was recovered from the Valley Enclosures by D. P. Collet while the remainder are in the Iziko Museums of South Africa

Photograph of soapstone bird from Great Zimbabwe sitting on Cecil John Rhodes cabinet of curiosities at Groote Schuur, Cape Town. The soapstone pendants are in the Great Zimbabwe Conservation Centre while the bowls are on display in the Natural History Museum in Bulawayo

Photograph of the scars left by the Department of Public Works: no records were kept. Robinsons Test 1 was located to the left of the trees in the centre of the picture

Stratigraphic section of Robinsons Test 1. Note that the deposit from 0 up to 5 was shovelled away by the Public Works Department in the early 20th century. The vertical scale is in feet (1 foot = 0.3048 m) (after Robinson 1961a; dates with M are Michigan and are by Summers et al. 1961; dates with Pta are from Huffman and Vogel 1991)

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