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List of works by Shadreck Chirikure

A Technology of Multiple Smelting Furnaces per Termite Mound: Iron Production in Chongwe, Lusaka, Zambia

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

A technological and anthropological study of iron production in Venda, Limpopo Province, South Africa

scientific article published on 2 April 2016

AFRICA, CENTRAL | Zimbabwe Plateau and Surrounding Areas

Adaptation, craftscapes and knowledge networks: introductory remarks on historical ecology and state formation in southern Africa

scientific article published on 2 October 2018

Are drylands marginal? The case of Mananzve, Shashi region, southwestern Zimbabwe

journal article from 'Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa' published in 2018

Beyond Static Models: An Evaluation of Present Status and Future Prospects for Iron Age Research in Southern Africa

article

Beyond furnaces and slags: a review study of bellows and their role in indigenous African metallurgical processes

scientific article published in August 2009

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

Community Involvement in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management

scholarly article by Shadreck Chirikure published in June 2008

Copper wire objects from Jahunda and Little Mapela: technology, value systems and networks in Iron Age southern Africa

journal article from 'Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa' published in 2018

Debating Great Zimbabwe

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

Decisive Evidence for Multidirectional Evolution of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa ⬇️

scientific article published in March 2016

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

Gathering and Hunting Farmers; Farming Gatherers and Hunters: So, What? ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 February 2019

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

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Investigating Cattle Procurement at Great Zimbabwe Using 87Sr/86Sr

Iron smelting in pre-colonial Zimbabwe: evidence for diachronic change from Swart Village and Baranda, northern Zimbabwe

scientific article published in June 2006

Issues Emerging: Thoughts on the Reflective Articles on Coronavirus (COVID-19) and African Archaeology

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Land and Sea Links: 1500 Years of Connectivity Between Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Rim Regions, ad 700 to 1700 ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 November 2014

Language and Archaeology in Southern Africa: The Search for Post-colonial Reality ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 March 2008

Maritime Archaeology and Trans-Oceanic Trade: A Case Study of the Oranjemund Shipwreck Cargo, Namibia

scientific article published on 10 July 2010

Motion with Caution: Jan Vansina and the Last Two Thousand Years of the Southern African Past ⬇️

journal article from 'History in Africa' published in 2018

Nation branding in Zimbabwe: Archaeological heritage, national cohesion, and corporate identities ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 March 2021

New Pathways of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on 26 October 2013

New Perspectives on the Political Economy of Great Zimbabwe ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

No Big Brother Here: Heterarchy, Shona Political Succession and the Relationship between Great Zimbabwe and Khami, Southern Africa

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

On Evidence, Ideas and Fantasy: The Origins of Iron in Sub-Saharan Africa. Thoughts on É. Zangato & A.F.C. Holl's “On the Iron Front”

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Ores Sources, Smelters and Archaeometallurgy: Exploring Iron Age Metal Production in the Southern Waterberg, South Africa

scientific article published on 11 November 2013

Ores, Furnaces, Slags, and Prehistoric Societies: Aspects of Iron Working in the Nyanga Agricultural Complex, AD 1300–1900

scholarly article by Shadreck Chirikure published in September 2004

Post-colonial heritage conservation in Africa: perspectives from drystone wall restorations at Khami World Heritage site, Zimbabwe

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Reverse Archaeology or Relevance Seeking Archaeology?

scholarly article by Shadreck Chirikure published in July 2012

Shades of Urbanism(s) and Urbanity in Pre-Colonial Africa: Towards Afro-Centred Interventions ⬇️

Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

The Conundrum of Great Zimbabwe ⬇️

The archaeometallurgical reconstruction of early second-millennium AD metal production activities at Shankare Hill, northern Lowveld, South Africa

scientific article published on 28 April 2016

The chronology, craft production and economy of the Butua capital of Khami, southwestern Zimbabwe

journal article from 'Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa' published in 2018

Unfulfilled promises? Heritage management and community participation at some of Africa's cultural heritage sites

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Usable Pasts Forum: UNESCO and Heritage Tourism in Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 August 2021

What was the population of Great Zimbabwe (CE1000 - 1800)?

scientific article

When ceramic sociology meets material science: Sociological and technological aspects of crucibles and pottery from Mapungubwe, southern Africa

scholarly article by Shadreck Chirikure published in December 2015

When science alone is not enough: Radiocarbon timescales, history, ethnography and elite settlements in southern Africa

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

scientific article

‘Ethno’ plus ‘archaeology’: what’s in there for Africa(ns)?

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‘Where angels fear to tread’: ethics, commercial archaeology, and extractive industries in southern Africa

scientific article published on 3 April 2014

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