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Great Zimbabwe : rediscovering the past / a film by Agnès Molia and Mickaël Lefrançois.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Arkeo
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural landscapes--Zimbabwe--Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city).
- Cultural landscapes.
- Archaeology and history--Zimbabwe--To 200 AD.
- Archaeology and history.
- Decolonization--History--Zimbabwe--Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city).
- Decolonization.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (26 minutes)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Eugene, Oregon] : Heritage Broadcasting Service, [2017]
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- In Zimbabwe, in the heart of the Zambezi Plateau of southeastern Africa, African archaeologists are trying to reveal a long-puzzling history, that of one of the most fascinating sites in sub-Saharan Africa: the monumental ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Here, archaeology has struggled to make itself heard. For the first European explorers at the end of the 19th century, Great Zimbabwe could not be the work of Africans: reflecting their own biases and without recourse to solid evidence, they dated the site to Classical antiquity and attributed it to the Phoenicians, a Mediterranean people. Since 1980, Zimbabwe has been an independent country, so local archaeologists have been trying to re-appropriate their own history.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on August 7, 2024).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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