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Innocent Pikirayi
INNOCENT PIKIRAYI is a Professor in Archaeology at the University of Pretoria. He researches the southern African later Iron Age, specifi cally the archaeology of Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe and post Great Zimbabwe periods. His primary interest in cultural heritage focuses on the relationships between archaeology and the public, specifically on the relevance of archaeological practice to descendant communities. He has been involved with the repatriation of human remains to the Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape and World Heritage Site and is working closely with the relevant South African government departments, communities from the Limpopo Province of South Africa and stakeholders to determine how infrastructure development and cultural heritage conservation can best intersect with each other.