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Great Zimbabwe

Great Zimbabwe is a medieval African stone city complex and the capital of a powerful Shona-speaking polity in southern Africa, distinguished by its monumental dry-stone architecture and role as a political, economic, and ceremonial center between the 11th and 15th centuries.

83

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4.6K

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141

Authors

56

Institutions

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2017–2026

8

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Publications

83

Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe

Leonard Leslie Bessant, David Mark Lan · The International Journal of African Historical Studies · 1987 · 493 citations

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Handbook to the Iron Age: the archaeology of pre-colonial farming societies in Southern Africa

Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 342 citations

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The Geology of the Great 'Dyke', Zimbabwe: The Ultramafic Rocks

A. H. Wilson · Journal of Petrology · 1982 · 254 citations

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Snakes and Crocodiles: Power and Symbolism in Ancient Zimbabwe

D. N. Beach, Michael Bourdillon, James Denbow et al. · The South African Archaeological Bulletin · 1997 · 195 citations

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Precise U–Pb mineral ages, Rb–Sr and Sm–Nd systematics for the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe—constraints on late Archean events in the Zimbabwe craton and Limpopo belt

Thomas Oberthür, Donald W. Davis, Thomas G. Blenkinsop et al. · Precambrian Research · 2002 · 166 citations

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Authors

141

  1. SC
    Shadreck Chirikure

    University of Cape Town, South Africa

    11 publications · 378 citations

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  2. IP
    Innocent Pikirayi

    University of Pretoria, South Africa

    8 publications · 436 citations

    8

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  3. FB
    Foreman Bandama

    University of Cape Town, South Africa

    7 publications · 223 citations

    7

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  4. TN
    Thomas N. Huffman

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    8 publications · 865 citations

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  5. AH
    A. H. Wilson

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    5 publications · 408 citations

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Institutions

56

  1. University of Cape Town

    Rondebosch, South Africa

    13 h-index

    32 publications

    964 citations

  2. University of Zimbabwe

    Harare, Zimbabwe

    12 h-index

    15 publications

    886 citations

  3. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    365 citations

  4. University of Pretoria

    Pretoria, South Africa

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    292 citations

  5. University of KwaZulu-Natal

    Durban, South Africa

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    382 citations

  6. Oxford Archaeology

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    128 citations

  7. National Blood Service Zimbabwe

    Harare, Zimbabwe

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    241 citations

  8. Great Zimbabwe University

    Masvingo, Zimbabwe

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    74 citations

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Venues

  1. Precambrian Research

    5 publications · 418 citations

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  2. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa

    5 publications · 110 citations

    5

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  3. Lithos

    4 publications · 129 citations

    4

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  4. Antiquity

    4 publications · 171 citations

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  5. South African Journal of Geology

    SAJG · 4 publications · 123 citations

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