Gilbert Pwiti
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Gilbert Pwiti | |
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| Occupation | Archaeologist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Continuity and change: an archaeological study of farming communities in northern Zimbabwe AD 500-1700 |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Zimbabwe |
Gilbert Pwiti is an archaeologist. He is a pioneer of modern archaeological and heritage management research in southern Africa and Zimbabwe. Pwiti was amongst the first generation of indigenous historians to be trained in archaeology in postcolonial southern Africa and he was the first professor of Archaeology in Zimbabwe.[1]
Pwiti was born in 1958 in Mazoe, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.[1]
He received a BA Dual Hons in History and African Languages in 1980 from the University of Zimbabwe.[1] In 1982, he moved to Europe to continue his archaeological training. He studied for an MPhil in Archaeology at Cambridge University in 1985. He received a PhD in Archaeology in 1996 from the University of Uppsala.[2] His thesis was entitled Continuity and change: an archaeological study of farming communities in northern Zimbabwe AD 500-1700.[3]
