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List of works by Innocent Pikirayi

A conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Ṣango of African archaeology

scientific article

AFRICA, CENTRAL | Zimbabwe Plateau and Surrounding Areas

Ceramics and change: an overview of pottery production techniques in northern South Africa and eastern Zimbabwe during the first and second millennium AD

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Ceramics and group identities

scholarly article by Innocent Pikirayi published in October 2007

Ceramics, Ethnohistory, and Ethnography: Locating Meaning in Southern African Iron Age Ceramic Assemblages

scientific article published in December 2013

Characterization of the corrosion layer on iron archaeological artefacts from K2 (825–1220 AD), an archaeological site in South Africa

scholarly article by Farahnaz Koleini published in July 2013

Coping with Dryland Environments: Preliminary Results from Mapungubwe and Zimbabwe Phase Sites in the Mateke Hills, South-Eastern Zimbabwe

scholarly article by Munyaradzi Manyanga et al published December 2000 in Goodwin series / the South African Archaeological Society

Debating Great Zimbabwe

scholarly article by Innocent Pikirayi & Shadreck Chirikure published August 2011 in Azania Archaeological Research in Africa

Efficiency of neutron tomography in visualizing the internal structure of metal artefacts from Mapungubwe museum collection with the aim of conservation

scholarly article by Farahnaz Koleini et al published July 2012 in Journal of Cultural Heritage

Evidence for indigenous strip-drawing in production of wire at Mapungubwe Hill (1220–1290 AD): towards an interdisciplinary approach

From centre-periphery models to textured urban landscapes : comparative perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa

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Great Zimbabwe in Historical Archaeology: Reconceptualizing Decline, Abandonment, and Reoccupation of an Ancient Polity, A.D. 1450–1900

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Ingombe Ilede and the demise of Great Zimbabwe

scholarly article by Innocent Pikirayi published August 2017 in Antiquity

Inside and outside the dry stone walls: revisiting the material culture of Great Zimbabwe

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Less Implict Historical Archaeologies: Oral Traditions and Later Karanga Settlement in South-Central Zimbabwe

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New Pathways of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa

scientific article published on 26 October 2013

Palaces, Feiras and Prazos: An Historical Archaeological Perspective of African–Portuguese Contact in Northern Zimbabwe

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Peter Garlake (1934–2011), Great Zimbabwe and the politics of the past in Zimbabwe

scholarly article by Innocent Pikirayi published June 2012 in Azania Archaeological Research in Africa

Repatriating more than Mapungubwe human remains: archaeological material culture, a shared future and an artificially divided past

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Response to Steven Feierman’s ‘writing history: flow and blockage in circulation of knowledge’

journal article from 'Journal of Contemporary African Studies' published in 2019

Retrieving intangibility, stemming biodiversity loss : the case of sacred places in Venda, northern South Africa

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Snakes and Crocodiles: Power and Symbolism in Ancient Zimbabwe

States, traders, and colonists: Historical archaeology in Zimbabwe

scientific article published in June 1999

Stone architecture and the development of power in the Zimbabwe tradition AD 1270 – 1830

scientific article published in June 2013

The Archaeology of Southern Africa

The Conundrum of Great Zimbabwe

The Kingdom, the Power and Forevermore: Zimbabwe Culture in Contemporary Art and Architecture

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The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested landscapes and the power of heritage, by Joost Fontein

scholarly article by I. Pikirayi published 18 May 2009 in African Affairs

The future of archaeology in Africa

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The organisation and layout of Zulu military homesteads (amakhanda)

journal article from 'Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa' published in 2019

What Can Archaeology Do for Society in Southern Africa?

scientific article published in December 2009

Will Historical Archaeology Escape Its Western Prejudices to Become Relevant to Africa?

scholarly article by Peter R. Schmidt published in July 2018

Zimbabwe culture before Mapungubwe: new evidence from Mapela Hill, South-Western Zimbabwe

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