Innocent Pikirayi

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Innocent Pikirayi

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#1476

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#1929

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Archeology

#633

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#866

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Innocent Pikirayi's Degrees

Bachelors Archaeology University of Zimbabwe
Masters Archaeology University of Zimbabwe
PhD Archaeology University of Zimbabwe

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According to Wikipedia, Innocent Pikirayi is Professor in Archaeology and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Pretoria. He works on the state and societies in southern Africa. Pikirayi was amongst the first Zimbabweans to train in archaeology after Zimbabwean independence.

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Innocent Pikirayi's Published Works

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Published Works

Inside and outside the dry stone walls: revisiting the material culture of Great Zimbabwe (2008) (73)
Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa : Decolonizing Practice (2016) (56)
Zimbabwe Culture before Mapungubwe: New Evidence from Mapela Hill, South-Western Zimbabwe (2014) (44)
New Pathways of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa (2013) (44)
Debating Great Zimbabwe (2011) (40)
Ceramics and change: an overview of pottery production techniques in northern South Africa and eastern Zimbabwe during the first and second millennium AD (2010) (37)
Ceramics and group identities (2007) (29)
Coping with Dryland Environments: Preliminary Results from Mapungubwe and Zimbabwe Phase Sites in the Mateke Hills, South-Eastern Zimbabwe (2000) (26)
Ceramics, Ethnohistory, and Ethnography: Locating Meaning in Southern African Iron Age Ceramic Assemblages (2013) (23)
Stone architecture and the development of power in the Zimbabwe tradition AD 1270 – 1830 (2013) (22)
Glass Beads, Markers of Ancient Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methodology, State of the Art and Perspectives (2019) (19)
The future of archaeology in Africa (2015) (18)
Revisiting Baranda: a multi-analytical approach in classifying sixteenth/seventeenth-century glass beads from northern Zimbabwe (2017) (15)
Palaces, Feiras and Prazos: An Historical Archaeological Perspective of African–Portuguese Contact in Northern Zimbabwe (2009) (15)
Taking Southern African Ceramic Studies into the Twenty-First Century: A Zimbabwean Perspective (1999) (13)
The Kingdom, the Power and Forevermore: Zimbabwe Culture in Contemporary Art and Architecture (2006) (13)
Efficiency of neutron tomography in visualizing the internal structure of metal artefacts from Mapungubwe museum collection with the aim of conservation (2012) (13)
Great Zimbabwe's water (2016) (11)
Trade, Globalisation and the Archaic State in Southern Africa (2017) (11)
Repatriating more than Mapungubwe human remains: archaeological material culture, a shared future and an artificially divided past (2011) (11)
Great Zimbabwe in Historical Archaeology: Reconceptualizing Decline, Abandonment, and Reoccupation of an Ancient Polity, A.D. 1450–1900 (2013) (9)
States, traders, and colonists: Historical archaeology in Zimbabwe (1999) (9)
Less Implict Historical Archaeologies: Oral Traditions and Later Karanga Settlement in South-Central Zimbabwe (2004) (9)
Will Historical Archaeology Escape Its Western Prejudices to Become Relevant to Africa? (2018) (9)
Raman and XRF classification of Asian and European glass beads recovered at Mutamba, a southern African Middle Iron Age site (2017) (8)
What Can Archaeology Do for Society in Southern Africa? (2009) (8)
The Zimbabwe Culture and its Neighbours (2013) (8)
The Chronology of Insiza Cluster Khami-Phase Sites in South-Western Zimbabwe: Compositional Insights from pXRF and Raman Analysis of Excavated Exotic Glass Finds (2019) (7)
Post-15th century European glass beads in southern Africa: Composition and classification using pXRF and Raman spectroscopy (2020) (7)
David Beach, Shona History and the Archaeology of Zimbabwe (1999) (7)
Introduction: community archaeology and heritage in Africa—decolonizing practice (2016) (5)
The Archaeology of Sub-Saharan Africa (2009) (5)
Sustainability and an archaeology of the future (2019) (5)
Local Narratives, Regional Histories, and the Demise of Great Zimbabwe (2019) (4)
The organisation and layout of Zulu military homesteads (amakhanda) (2018) (3)
Characterization of the corrosion layer on iron archaeological artefacts from K2 (825–1220 AD), an archaeological site in South Africa (2013) (3)
Ingombe Ilede and the demise of Great Zimbabwe (2017) (3)
The pottery of the historical Mutapa State: an examination of the local ceramics from some trading centres in northern Zimbabwe (1997) (3)
Evidence for indigenous strip-drawing in production of wire at Mapungubwe Hill (1220–1290 AD): towards an interdisciplinary approach (2012) (2)
New Pathways of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa (2013) (2)
Feasting among Venda-speakers of South Africa: the Late Iron Age fauna from Mutokolwe (2018) (2)
A Conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Ṣango of African Archaeology (2020) (2)
Wars, Violence and Strongholds: An Overview of Pre-Colonial Fortified Settlements in Northern Zimbabwe, 1550-1750 (2000) (2)
The cultural landscape of the Shashe-Limpopo Confluence Zone: Threats and challenges of preserving a World Heritage setting (2005) (2)
From Centre-Periphery Models to Textured Urban Landscapes: Comparative Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa (2020) (2)
Climate-smart Harvesting and Storing of Water: The Legacy of dhaka Pits at Great Zimbabwe (2022) (1)
Retrieving Intangibility to Avert Human-Driven Bio-Diversity Loss: The Case of Thathe Sacred Forest, Phiphidi Waterfalls and Lake Fundudzi, Northern South Africa (2021) (1)
Southern Africa: Historical Archaeology (2020) (1)
Retrieving Intangibility, Stemming Biodiversity Loss: The Case of Sacred Places in Venda, Northern South Africa (2021) (1)
Southern Africa: Origins and Development of Agriculture (2020) (1)
IDENTIFYING ZULU MILITARY (AMAKHANDA) SETTLEMENTS IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD (2019) (1)
Community-Based Approaches in the Construction and Management of Water Infrastructures among the Chagga, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (2023) (0)
Will Historical Archaeology Escape Its Western Prejudices to Become Relevant to Africa? (2018) (0)
The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested landscapes and the power of heritage, by Joost Fontein (2009) (0)
Fortifications in Mukaranga, northern Zimbabwe (1600-1700 AD): a socio-political perspective (2015) (0)
Landscape, history and power: The Zimbabwe Culture and the Nambya state, north-western Zimbabwe (2022) (0)
Geoarchaeology of water management at Great Zimbabwe (2016) (0)
Peter Garlake (1934–2011), Great Zimbabwe and the politics of the past in Zimbabwe (2012) (0)
Archaeological pointers to the decline or collapse of the Mutapa state (1996) (0)
The Conundrum of Great Zimbabwe (2023) (0)
Great Zimbabwe, 1100–1600 AD, Rise, Development, and Demise of (2020) (0)
‘The living dead’:: Shona worldview around death and burial and implications for archaeology (2013) (0)
Research trends in the historical archaeology of Zimbabwe (2013) (0)
The Nexus between Bad Governance, Ungoverned Spaces and Terrorism: Analysing the Boko Haram Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin through the lenses of the Social Contract Theory (2021) (0)
Great Zimbabwe tradition settlement and gold mining: local pottery from historical period mines in northern Zimbabwe (1999) (0)
Ceramics, Ethnohistory, and Ethnography: Locating Meaning in Southern African Iron Age Ceramic Assemblages (2013) (0)
The Travail and Feasibility of Returning Home of Gwoza Women in New Kuchingoro Internally Displaced Persons Camp, Nigeria (2022) (0)
Ceramics, global network of trade and interaction: the 'feira' trade and the Portuguese in northern Zimbabwe, 16th-17th centuries AD (2014) (0)
Response to Steven Feierman’s ‘writing history: flow and blockage in circulation of knowledge’ (2019) (0)
A Conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Ṣango of African Archaeology (2020) (0)
AFRICA, CENTRAL | Zimbabwe Plateau and Surrounding Areas (2008) (0)
Water and society (2018) (0)
Great Zimbabwe, 1100–1600 AD, Rise, Development and Demise of (2019) (0)
Ceramics and the ethnographic present : interrogating pottery in Southern African Iron Age studies : some unanswered questions (2013) (0)
Ceramics and the Ethnographic Present: ceramic manufacturing techniques in southern Africa (2007) (0)
Water and large-scale societies in southern Zambezia, 900–1900 ce (2018) (0)

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