Shadreck Chirikure

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Shadreck Chirikure

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#1951

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#2522

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Archeology

#502

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#699

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Shadreck Chirikure's Degrees

PhD Archaeology University of Cape Town
Masters Archaeology University of Cape Town
Bachelors Archaeology University of Zimbabwe

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According to Wikipedia, Shadreck Chirikure is a professor at the University of Cape Town, and holds a British Academy Global Professorship within the School of Archaeology at Oxford. He is a leading archaeologist, studying pyrotechnology and southern Africa.

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Shadreck Chirikure's Published Works

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Community Involvement in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management (2008) (168)
Unfulfilled promises? Heritage management and community participation at some of Africa's cultural heritage sites (2010) (156)
Pharmacogenomics Implications of Using Herbal Medicinal Plants on African Populations in Health Transition (2015) (80)
Decisions set in slag: the human factor in African iron smelting (2007) (76)
Inside and outside the dry stone walls: revisiting the material culture of Great Zimbabwe (2008) (73)
New Pathways of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa (2013) (44)
Iron production and its position in Iron Age communities of southern Africa (2007) (44)
Zimbabwe Culture before Mapungubwe: New Evidence from Mapela Hill, South-Western Zimbabwe (2014) (44)
Land and Sea Links: 1500 Years of Connectivity Between Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Rim Regions, ad 700 to 1700 (2014) (43)
Debating Great Zimbabwe (2011) (40)
H3Africa and the African life sciences ecosystem: building sustainable innovation. (2014) (39)
The technology of tin smelting in the Rooiberg Valley, Limpopo Province, South Africa, ca. 1650–1850 CE (2010) (35)
Beyond furnaces and slags: a review study of bellows and their role in indigenous African metallurgical processes (2009) (33)
Heritage conservation in Africa: The good, the bad, and the challenges (2013) (33)
When science alone is not enough: Radiocarbon timescales, history, ethnography and elite settlements in southern Africa (2012) (31)
Decisive Evidence for Multidirectional Evolution of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa (2016) (31)
COVID-19 Pandemic and Africa: From the Situation in Zimbabwe to a Case for Precision Herbal Medicine. (2020) (30)
Ores, Furnaces, Slags, and Prehistoric Societies: Aspects of Iron Working in the Nyanga Agricultural Complex, AD 1300–1900 (2004) (28)
Exotica in Context: Reconfiguring Prestige, Power and Wealth in the Southern African Iron Age (2016) (27)
A Bayesian chronology for Great Zimbabwe: re-threading the sequence of a vandalised monument (2013) (27)
Research Article NEW LIGHT ON NJANJA IRON WORKING: TOWARDS A SYSTEMATIC ENCOUNTER BETWEEN ETHNOHISTORY AND ARCHAEOMETALLURGY (2006) (24)
Iron smelting in pre-colonial Zimbabwe: Evidence for diachronic change from Swart village and Baranda, northern Zimbabwe (2006) (23)
No Big Brother Here: Heterarchy, Shona Political Succession and the Relationship between Great Zimbabwe and Khami, Southern Africa (2017) (21)
Metals in Past Societies (2015) (20)
Bush mint (Hyptis suaveolens) and spreading hogweed (Boerhavia diffusa) medicinal plant extracts differentially affect activities of CYP1A2, CYP2D6 and CYP3A4 enzymes. (2018) (20)
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” (2010) (20)
Disease burden and the role of pharmacogenomics in African populations (2017) (20)
The Production, Distribution and Consumption of Metals and Alloys at Great Zimbabwe (2016) (19)
Maritime Archaeology and Trans-Oceanic Trade: A Case Study of the Oranjemund Shipwreck Cargo, Namibia (2010) (18)
Concept and knowledge revision in the post-colony:: mukwerera, the practice of asking for rain amongst the Shona of southern Africa (2017) (17)
Elites and commoners at Great Zimbabwe: archaeological and ethnographic insights on social power (2018) (17)
When ceramic sociology meets material science: Sociological and technological aspects of crucibles and pottery from Mapungubwe, southern Africa (2015) (16)
Personalized Herbal Medicine? A Roadmap for Convergence of Herbal and Precision Medicine Biomarker Innovations. (2018) (16)
Seen but Not Told: Re-mapping Great Zimbabwe Using Archival Data, Satellite Imagery and Geographical Information Systems (2017) (16)
What was the population of Great Zimbabwe (CE1000 – 1800)? (2017) (15)
Beyond Static Models: An Evaluation of Present Status and Future Prospects for Iron Age Research in Southern Africa (2015) (15)
Mineralogical study of precolonial (1650–1850 CE) tin smelting slags from Rooiberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa (2010) (15)
Iron production in Iron Age Zimbabwe : stagnation or innovation? (2005) (14)
New Perspectives on the Political Economy of Great Zimbabwe (2019) (14)
Managing heritage in Africa : who cares? (2017) (12)
‘Where angels fear to tread’: ethics, commercial archaeology, and extractive industries in southern Africa (2014) (12)
Metals in Past Societies: A Global Perspective on Indigenous African Metallurgy (2015) (11)
‘Ethno’ plus ‘archaeology’: what’s in there for Africa(ns)? (2016) (10)
The archaeometallurgical reconstruction of early second-millennium AD metal production activities at Shankare Hill, northern Lowveld, South Africa (2016) (10)
Indigenous African Furnace Types and Slag Composition—Is there a Correlation? (2014) (10)
Great Zimbabwe (2020) (8)
Ores Sources, Smelters and Archaeometallurgy: Exploring Iron Age Metal Production in the Southern Waterberg, South Africa (2013) (8)
Eiland crucibles and the earliest relative dating for tin and bronze working in southern Africa (2015) (8)
Documenting Precolonial Trade in Africa (2017) (8)
Typological and technological attributes of metallurgical crucibles from Great Zimbabwe (1000–1700 CE)'s legacy collections (2017) (7)
Continuing Conversations at the Frontier (2010) (7)
Crafting power: New perspectives on the political economy of southern Africa, AD 900–1300 (2020) (7)
Post-colonial heritage conservation in Africa: perspectives from drystone wall restorations at Khami World Heritage site, Zimbabwe (2016) (7)
Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck (2020) (6)
14.13 - Geochemistry of Ancient Metallurgy: Examples from Africa and Elsewhere (2014) (6)
Making archaeology relevant to global challenges: a Global South perspective (2021) (6)
A Technology of Multiple Smelting Furnaces per Termite Mound: Iron Production in Chongwe, Lusaka, Zambia (2020) (6)
Archives, objects, places and landscapes:: the multidisciplinary and decolonising imperative (2017) (5)
Are drylands marginal? The case of Mananzve, Shashi region, southwestern Zimbabwe (2018) (5)
When the smith is a woman : Innovation, improvisation and ambiguity in the organisation of African iron metallurgy (2017) (5)
Usable Pasts Forum: UNESCO and Heritage Tourism in Africa (2021) (5)
“Do as I Say and Not as I Do”. On the Gap Between Good Ethics and Reality in African Archaeology (2015) (5)
The chronology, craft production and economy of the Butua capital of Khami, southwestern Zimbabwe (2018) (4)
Archaeological implications of ethnographically grounded functional study of pottery from Nyanga, Zimbabwe (2020) (4)
Characterization of the corrosion layer on iron archaeological artefacts from K2 (825–1220 AD), an archaeological site in South Africa (2013) (3)
Copper wire objects from Jahunda and Little Mapela: technology, value systems and networks in Iron Age southern Africa (2018) (3)
Issues Emerging: Thoughts on the Reflective Articles on Coronavirus (COVID-19) and African Archaeology (2020) (3)
Reverse Archaeology or Relevance Seeking Archaeology? (2012) (3)
The Archaeology of African Metalworking (2013) (2)
Metals in society (2007) (2)
Precolonial Metallurgy and Mining across Africa (2018) (2)
Adaptation, craftscapes and knowledge networks: introductory remarks on historical ecology and state formation in southern Africa (2018) (2)
Nation branding in Zimbabwe: Archaeological heritage, national cohesion, and corporate identities (2021) (2)
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)
Investigating Cattle Procurement at Great Zimbabwe Using 87Sr/86Sr (2021) (1)
Archaeometallurgical Explorations of Bloomery Iron Smelting at Mutoti 2, an Early Iron Age Site in Venda, Northern South Africa (2023) (1)
Climate-smart Harvesting and Storing of Water: The Legacy of dhaka Pits at Great Zimbabwe (2022) (1)
Seen but Not Told: Re-mapping Great Zimbabwe Using Archival Data, Satellite Imagery and Geographical Information Systems (2016) (1)
Nyanga pottery and the Manyika ethnohistory: towards a decolonised archaeology of the Nyanga agricultural complex (2021) (1)
Indigenous Peoples, Working with and for (2020) (1)
The Mutapa and the Portuguese: archaeometallurgy and regional interaction in southern Africa (2017) (1)
The Later Prehistory of Southern Africa from the Early to the Late Iron Age (2014) (1)
Measly but motley and manifest: The typological and chemical characterisations of glass beads from the Southern Waterberg, Limpopo Province of South Africa (2018) (1)
Gathering and Hunting Farmers; Farming Gatherers and Hunters: So, What? (2019) (1)
Shades of Urbanism(s) and Urbanity in Pre-Colonial Africa: Towards Afro-Centred Interventions (2020) (1)
Scientific approaches to the archaeology of Zimbabwe: a review (2008) (1)
Mother Earth Provides: Mining and Crossing the Boundary Between Nature and Culture (2015) (1)
A technological and anthropological study of iron production in Venda, Limpopo Province, South Africa (2016) (1)
AFRICA, SOUTH | Herders, Farmers, and Metallurgists of South Africa (2008) (1)
Caring matters : The future of managing heritage in Africa (2017) (1)
Modelling Land Use in The Gold Belt Territories of Iron Age Southern Zambezia (2022) (0)
Hari, or pottery (2020) (0)
Reconstructing the geological provenance and long-distance movement of rectangular, fishtail, and croisette copper ingots in Iron Age Zambia and Zimbabwe (2023) (0)
Exotica in Context: Reconfiguring Prestige, Power and Wealth in the Southern African Iron Age (2016) (0)
Origins and Development of Africa’s Preindustrial Mining and Metallurgy (2015) (0)
The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs H 3 Africa and the African life sciences ecosystem : building sustainable innovation (2016) (0)
Rise and declineResilience of Great Zimbabwe (2020) (0)
Language and Archaeology in Southern Africa: The Search for Post-colonial Reality (2008) (0)
Misha nedzimba On homesteads and households (2020) (0)
Proposal When material science meet ceramic sociology : an archaeometallurgical study of crucibles and domestic pottery from Mapungubwe , South Africa (2013) (0)
Urbanism and statehood (2020) (0)
Land and Sea Links: 1500 Years of Connectivity Between Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Rim Regions, ad 700 to 1700 (2014) (0)
Crafts, science, technology, and innovation (2020) (0)
Decisive Evidence for Multidirectional Evolution of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa (2016) (0)
Bridging Conceptual Boundaries, A Global Perspective (2015) (0)
‘Reclaimed’ Great Zimbabwe in a wider contextFrom Egyptian pyramids to decolonised global pasts (2020) (0)
The Social Role of Metals (2015) (0)
New Perspectives on the Political Economy of Great Zimbabwe (2019) (0)
Fluid Spaces and Fluid Objects: Nocturnal Material Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa with Special Reference to the Iron Age in Southern Africa (2017) (0)
Biography of Great ZimbabweLate 18th to 21st centuries (2020) (0)
Mtanye revisited: new insights into the Middle Iron Age of southern Zambezia (2022) (0)
The Conundrum of Great Zimbabwe (2023) (0)
Gathering and Hunting Farmers; Farming Gatherers and Hunters: So, What? (2019) (0)
After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape of Great Zimbabwe (2019) (0)
Archaeological implica.ons of ethnographically grounded func.onal study of po6ery from Nyanga, Zimbabwe (2020) (0)
Cross-craft Overlaps in Materials and Symbolism: Insights from Legacy Crucibles from the Great Zimbabwe Archive (2017) (0)
Motion with Caution: Jan Vansina and the Last Two Thousand Years of the Southern African Past (2018) (0)
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa (2021) (0)
The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis (2020) (0)
Fluid Spaces and Fluid Objects: Nocturnal Material Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa with Special Reference to southern Africa (2016) (0)
ExoticsFame, prestige, and value (2020) (0)
Ethics of Commercial Archaeology: Southern Africa (2020) (0)
Great Zimbabwe in the 21st century (2013) (0)
AFRICA, CENTRAL | Zimbabwe Plateau and Surrounding Areas (2008) (0)
Forum Respondents (2009) (0)
Chronology of Great Zimbabwe – relative, absolute, and integrated (2020) (0)
Background to ‘Shona’ concepts and the Great Zimbabwe nyika (territory) (2020) (0)
Metals and the Production and Reproduction of Society (2015) (0)
Unveiling a ‘confiscated’ past (2020) (0)
Conflict between local communities and heritage managers in the conservation of Historic Cairo (2017) (0)
ethnography and elite settlements in southern Africa When science alone is not enough: Radiocarbon timescales, history, (2014) (0)

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