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Making archaeology relevant to global challenges: a Global South perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2021

Shadreck Chirikure
Shadreck Chirikure*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, South Africa (✉ shadreck.chirikure@uct.ac.za) School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK
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Antiquity , Volume 95 , Issue 382 , August 2021 , pp. 1073 - 1077
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