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Peter Garlake's Great Zimbabwe, published by Thames and Hudson in 1973, is a standard scholarly archaeological study of the Great Zimbabwe site, based on Garlake's own excavation and survey work. Its strength is that it established, on archaeological grounds, that the site was built by indigenous African builders, correcting earlier colonial-era claims attributing it to outside civilizations. Its limit is that it reflects the archaeological understanding of the 1970s, and dating and interpretation of the site's several building phases have been refined by subsequent research, so a claim resting on the site's precise chronology should be checked against more recent archaeological work as well.
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Peter Garlake's Great Zimbabwe, published by Thames and Hudson in 1973, is a standard scholarly archaeological study by an excavating archaeologist of the site, treated at the top tier. NotesScholarly study of the archaeological site of Great Zimbabwe.
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AuthorPeter S. Garlake
PublisherThames and Hudson
Publication Year1973
Source TypeScholarly work
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This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 16 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Sites, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds, 2 general references.
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- Cultures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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