Peer Reviewed Articles

2026

Nyamushosho, R. T. Where We Are and Where We Are Going: A Look at the Present and Future of Archaeogaming as a Subfield of Archaeology. In Archaeogaming as Scholarly Play: The Intersection of Archaeology and Gaming edited by, M, R. Victor. New York: Berghahn.

2025

Nyamushosho, R. T. Reimagining Governance in the Zimbabwe Culture: Archaeological and Anthropological Insights from Ancient Mberengwa. In Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives, edited by, J. Jennings 217–249. New York: Routledge.

2024

Nyamushosho, R. T. Crafting and everyday archaeology at Chumnungwa. World Archaeology, 56(3), 323-348. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2025.2546090

Nyamushosho, R.T., Moffett, A.J., Chirikure, S, Bandama, F, Stephens, J, Mathoho, E, and Sitas, A. Chumnungwa Glass Beads: New Insights into the Geochemistry, Circulation, and Consumption Patterns of Pre-European Glass Beads in Iron Age Southern Africa, CE 980–1650. African Archaeological Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-024-09601-9

Nyamushosho, R.T.; & Chipangura, N. Mixed memories: rethinking the loss and transformation of the colonial heritage archive in the aftermath of the Jagger Library inferno and Rhodes Must Fall Movement, Social Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2024.2320575

Chirikure, S., Bandama, F., House, M., Manyanga, M., & Nyamushosho, R. T. Archaeology, climate change and human adaptation in southern Africa: Evidence from Mapela and Little Mapela, southern Africa. Quaternary Science Advances, 15, 100219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100219

2023

Mathoho, E.N.; Nyamushosho, R.T.; Chirikure, S. Archaeometallurgical Explorations of Bloomery Iron Smelting at Mutoti 2, an Early Iron Age Site in Venda, Northern South Africa. Metals 13, 269. https://doi.org/10.3390/met13020269

2022

Scholfield, J, Nyamushosho, R, T, Mushangwe, C, & Chirikure, S. Mtanye revisited: New insights into the Middle Iron Age of southern Zambezia. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2022.2115262

Nyamushosho, R, T, Chirikure, S, Sitas, A, & Maṱhoho, E, N, Modelling Land Use in The Gold Belt Territories of Iron Age Southern Zambezia. Land 11, 1425. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11091425

Maṱhoho, E, N, Chirikure, S, & Nyamushosho, R, T. Board games and social life in Iron Age southern Africa. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 66, 101418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101418

 2021

Moffett, A, J, Nyamushosho, R, T, Bandama, F, and Chirikure, S. Stringing together cowrie shells in the African archaeological record with special reference to southern Africa. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-021-09539-1

 Nyamushosho, R, T, Chipangura, N, Pasipanodya, T.B, Bandama, F, Chirikure, S, & Manyanga, M. Nyanga pottery and the Manyika ethnohistory: towards a decolonised archaeology of the Nyanga agricultural complex. Heliyon-Elsevier 7: 3, e06609

2020

Nyamushosho, R.T, & Chirikure, S. Archaeological implications of ethnographically grounded functional study of pottery from Nyanga, Zimbabwe. Quaternary International. 555: 150–164

2019

Chipangura. N, Nyamushosho, R. T, & Pasipanodya, T, B. Living site, living values: the Matendera festival as practice in community conservation and presentation. International Journal of Intangible Heritage 14,16-31

2018

Nyamushosho, R.T, Chirikure, S., Bandama, F., Manyanga, M, & Mukwende, T. Are drylands marginal? The case study of Mananzve, Shashi region, southwestern Zimbabwe. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 53:4, 439-476

Mukwende, T, Bandama, F, Chirikure, S, & Nyamushosho, R, T. The chronology, craft production and economy of the Butua capital of Khami, southwestern Zimbabwe, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 53:4, 477-506

Chirikure S, Nyamushosho, R, Bandama, F, Dandara, C. Elites, and commoners at Great Zimbabwe: archaeological and ethnographic insights on social power. Antiquity 92, 364, 1056– 1075

2017

Chirikure, S., Mukwende, T., Moffett, A.J., Nyamushosho, R.T., Bandama, F., & House, M., No big brother here: heterarchy, Shona political succession and the relationship between great Zimbabwe and Khami, southern Africa. Cambridge. Archaeological Journal. 28: 1, 45-66

Nyamushosho, R T. Aspects of consumption and symbolism: A ceramic ethnoarchaeological study of ritual vessels among the Saunyama of north-eastern Zimbabwe. In Manyanga, M & Chirikure, S (eds), Archives, Objects and Landscapes. Multidisciplinary approaches to Decolonised Zimbabwean Pasts. Langaa Publishers

Chirikure, S., Nyamushosho, R T., Chimhundu, H.H., Dandara, C., Pamburai, H.H. & Manyanga, M. Concept and knowledge revision in the post-colony: mukwerera, the practice of asking for rain amongst the Shona of southern Africa. In Manyanga, M & Chirikure, S (eds), Archives, Objects and Landscapes. Multidisciplinary approaches to Decolonised Zimbabwean Pasts. Langaa Publishers

Magazine, Newspaper, and other Non-Peer-Reviewed Articles

2026

Nyamushosho, R. T. Great Zimbabwe. Debunking the myths of tyrants and forced labour. The Conversation Africa 16 June 2026

2015

Chirikure, S., Bandama, F., Pollard, F, Fredriksen, P, D, Mahachi, G, Manyanga, M, House, M Moffett, A.J, Mukwende, T., & Nyamushosho, R.T. Mapela Hill: The early birth of southern Africa’s first great civilisation. Current World Archaeology.73: 20-24

2014

Chipangura, N & Nyamushosho, R.T. Embracing our cultural heritage as our own property. Manica Post 16-22 May 2014