Great Zimbabwe : – P S Garlake

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Basil Davidson, noted historian of Africa, on the author, Peter Garlake:
“Garlake is extraordinarily well qualified to tell this story ‘as it really was’. A native Southern Africa himself, he took to professional archaeology after training in architecture, and combined the two disciplines to very fine effect.
A bio on the author :Garlake began his career in African art and archaeology as a Nuffield Research Student, British Institute in Eastern Africa from 1962 to 1964, carrying out excavations at Manekweni in Mozambique.[2]
From 1964 to 1970, Garlake served as the Rhodesian Inspector of Monuments and was on faculty at the University of Rhodesia.[3] During this time his research focused on the early history of Great Zimbabwe. He argued that Great Zimbabwe was constructed by the ancestors of the current inhabitants of the area, the Shona people, as opposed to being constructed by a non-African or outsider civilization. This research was opposed by the whites-only Rhodesian government, including the prime minister, Ian Smith,[4] and Garlake was forced to leave the country in 1970.
Garlake relocated to Ife, Nigeria, and between 1971 and 1973 was a senior research fellow at the University of Ife, where he researched the early art and archaeology of Ile-Ife. From 1976 to 1981, Garlake held an appointment as lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. Following Zimbabwean Independence, Garlake returned to Zimbabwe and spent the next ten years conducting his research on early Zimbabwean rock art.
Edited By Sir Mortimer Wheeler: 224 pages, 17 Colour Plates, 113 Monochrome Plates, 29 Line Drawings. Dust wrapper in very good condition, and for extra protection in a cellophane cover (no sticky tape) pages tight and clean no previous owner inscriptions. All round a very good copy.