The preservation of Great Zimbabwe - ICCROM

ICCROM COnseRvatIOn

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the Preservation of Great Zimbabwe

Your MonuMent our Shrine

ICCROM COnseRvatIOn

studIes

4

the Preservation of Great Zimbabwe

Your MonuMent our Shrine

by Webber Ndoro

ISBN 92-9077-199-2 ? 2005 ICCROM

International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property Via di San Michele 13 00153 Rome, Italy



Design by Maxtudio, Rome

Contents

Foreword

v

Acknowledgements

1

List of illustrations

2

1 The management of ruined monuments the framework

4

4

Preservation

5

Presentation

6

2 HdeevrietlaogpemmenantsaginemZiemnbtainbwSeouthern Africa and

8

developments in southern africa

8

Protective legislation

10

Origins of modern heritage management in Zimbabwe

11

discussion

15

3 Great Zimbabwe: nature of the monument

16

archaeological background

17

architectural details

18

dry stone structures

22

Dhaka (earthen) structures

25

Material culture

26

discussion

26

4 The development of heritage management at Great Zimbabwe 27

the first europeans

27

Men of science and politics

28

Men of the people

32

International input into Great Zimbabwe's management

35

discussion

37

5 Preserving the fabric off the monument dry stone structures

38

38

Dhaka structures

39

external Factors

40

Recording and documentation

42

Preserving sections of Great Zimbabwe: case studies

43

Preservation process

47

discussion

48

6 Redefining the cultural landscape

49

Place information

51

the cultural landscape before the nineteenth century

52

the cultural landscape from the nineteenth century onwards

55

vegetation

57

Present setting

59

discussion

60

7 Great Zimbabwe: a valuable cultural resource

62

Cultural values

63

Global and national values

65

analysis of values for Great Zimbabwe

65

Cultural values for Great Zimbabwe

71

discussion

71

8 Presenting the cultural heritage academic interpretation and public access

73

73

alternative interpretation

76

Presentation and the public

77

visitor management

80

an educational resource

81

discussion

83

9 Summary and conclusions

84

Preservation

85

Presentation

86

Conclusion

86

Bibliography

87

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