David Randall-MacIver

David Randall-MacIver
Born31 October 1873
Died30 April 1945
NationalityBritish
Known forexcavations at Great Zimbabwe
Scientific career
Fieldsarchaeology

David Randall-MacIver FBA (31 October 1873 – 30 April 1945) was a British-born archaeologist,[1] who later became an American citizen. He is most famous for his excavations at Great Zimbabwe which provided the first solid evidence that the site was built by Shona peoples.

  1. ^ ‘RANDALL-MACIVER, David’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 7 Feb 2014