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Zimbabwe, All Things Considered
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
Abstract
A book slender in size but rich in content. Certainly it should be read by Europeans and Africans who are interested in the historic problems of Zimbabwe ruins with or without a mystery attached, yet have neither time or training to tackle the detailed publication of the 1958 excavations by Summers and his two colleagues, which appeared in December 1961 as an Occasional Paper (vol. 3) of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia, and is, in the main, a concentrated and masterly exercise in stratigraphy.
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- Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1964
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Dr Caton-Thompson excavated at Zimbabwe in 1929 on the occasion of the British Association's visit to South Africa. She wrote an article based on her report to the British Association in the third volume of this journal (ANTIQUITY, 1929, 424 ) and in 1931 published The Zimbabwe Culture. Five years ago she reviewed in these pages B. G. Paver's Zimbabwe Cavalcade (ANTIQUITY, 1958, 199), and here, in this review article, discusses Zimbabwe, a Rhodesian Mystery, a new book by Roger Summers (London, Nelson: 1963. 115 pp., 17 photographs, 3 plans. 21s). The account of the Zimbabwe excavations, 1958 (to which Dr Caton-Thompson refers), by Summers, Robinson and Whitty, was published in 1961 as an Occasional Paper of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia and reviewed here by Professor Desmond Clark (ANTIQUITY, 1963, 76).