References and Further Reading

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Anati, E. (2015). World Rock Art. Capodiponte: Atelier Edit.

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Animalia. (n.d.). Greater Kudu—Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia. Bio. Retrieved February 26, 2026, from https://animalia.bio/greater-kudu

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Biology, I. (2026, January 13). What Animals Are in Zimbabwe? A Look at Its Wildlife. Biology Insights. https://biologyinsights.com/what-animals-are-in-zimbabwe-a-look-at-its-wildlife/

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Bonneau, A., Pearce, D., Mitchell, P., Staff, R., Arthur, C., Mallen, L., Brock, F., & Higham, T. (2017). The earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa: New AMS radiocarbon dates. Antiquity, 91(356), 322–333. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.271

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BUSE Adopts Two National Monuments | Bindura University of Science Education. (2022, February 24). https://www.buse.ac.zw/buse-adopts-two-national-monuments/

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Dowson, T. A. (2007). “Debating Shamanism in Southern African Rock Art: Time to Move On.” South African Archaeological Bulletin 62 (185): 49–61.

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Drucker, J. (2014) Digital Humanities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9248.003.0003

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Garlake, P. S. (1972). Excavations at the Nhunguza and Ruanga Ruins in Northern Mashonaland. The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 27(107/108), 107. https://doi.org/10.2307/3888512

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Garlake, P. S. (1987). Themes in the prehistoric art of Zimbabwe. World Archaeology, 19(2), 178–193. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1987.9980033

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Gibbon, G. (2017). The Science of Rock Art Research. In B. David & I. J. McNiven (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art. Oxford University Press. 

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Gold, M. K., and Klein, L. F. eds. (2016). Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Henshilwood, C. S., D’Errico, F., & Watts, I. (2009). Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 57(1), 27–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.01.005

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Holt, J. Z. (2013). Ritual Objects and the Red Horn State: Decoding the Theater State at Cahokia. Illinois Antiquity, 48(3), 17–19.

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Katz, R. (1982). Boiling Energy: Community Healing Among the Kalahari Kung. Harvard University Press.

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Leon, S. (2017). 'Complexity and Collaboration: Doing Public History in Digital Environments', in Paula Hamilton, and James B. Gardner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Public History, Oxford Handbooks https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766024.013.2

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Lewis-Williams, J. D, and Thomas A. D. (1988). “The Signs of All Times: Entoptic Phenomena in Upper Paleolithic Art.” Current Anthropology 29 (2): 201–245.

Ramsar Convention Secretariat. 2016. Ramsar Site Information Sheet: Lake Chivero and Manyame. Accessed April 8, 2026. https://rsis.ramsar.org/RISapp/files/RISrep/ZW2105RIS_1602_en.pdf

Schaafsma, P. (2015). Meanderings: The possibility of art. New Mexico Historical Review90(2), 9.

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Van den Heever, S. (2021). Botanical Motifs in the Rock Art of Zimbabwe. MSc dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand.

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Warwick, Claire. (2012). “Studying Users in Digital Humanities.” In Literary and Linguistic Computing 27, no. 1: 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqs013.

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Walker, N. (2012). The rock art of the Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe. Adoranten, 38.

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Walker, N. J. (1996). The Painted Hills: Rock art of the Matopos, Zimbabwe: a guidebook. Mambo Press.

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Watrall, E. (2016) “Archaeology and the Digital Humanities: A ‘Big Tent’ View.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Zimbabwe Field Guide | Information on Historic, Cultural and Wildlife sites in Zimbabwe. (n.d.). Retrieved February 19, 2026, from https://zimfieldguide.com/

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