A Short Historiography of David Killick

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This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Science and African Archaeology: Appreciating the Impact of David Killick" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

David Killick came to archaeology perhaps earlier in life and almost surely in a more unconventional way than did most of us: at a prestigious, all-boys boarding school in what was then colonial Rhodesia. Student trips to the nearby Matobo Hills, an extraordinary landscape of balancing granite boulders that hide thousands of rock art sites, and camping excursions to Great Zimbabwe, where the imposing, mortarless stone walls of the thirteenth–sixteenth-century capital still stand, piqued Dave’s curiosity about the ancient inhabitants of that landscape. Though he has collaborated on projects worldwide, Dave’s lasting academic legacy is his research on the complexities of technology and trade in Southern Africa. In this short historiography, we will take a quick journey along Dave’s path from his childhood in Malawi to his upcoming retirement from the University of Arizona.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeological Science and African Archaeology: Appreciating the Impact of David Killick   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37099.0