David Randall-MacIver

David Randall-MacIver
David Randall-MacIver
Born	31 October 1873
Died	30 April 1945
Nationality	United Kingdom
Fields	archaeology
Known for	excavations at Great Zimbabwe

David Randall-MacIver (31 October 1873 – 30 April 1945) was a British-born archaeologist, 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.

Randall-MacIver began his career working with Flinders Petrie in Egypt, uncovering the mortuary temple of Senwosret III. He moved to America when he was appointed as Egyptology curator at the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, in 1905.^[1]

He initiated research into the relationship between Egypt and Nubia, uncovering some of the earliest evidence of ancient Nubian culture, dating back to 3100BCE. Between 1905 and 1906 Randall-MacIver conducted the first detailed study of Great Zimbabwe. The absence of any artefacts of non-African origin led him to conclude that the structure was built by local people. Earlier scholars had speculated that the structure had been built by Arab or Phoenician traders.

Randall-MacIver left Penn museum in 1911, becoming librarian of the American Geographical Society up to 1914, when he left to work as an intelligence officer in the First World War. In 1921 he moved to Italy to study Etruscan archaeology. He remained in Italy during World War II, later assisting the US army to preserve historical monuments.^[1]

Books

• Thomson, Arthur; David Randall-MacIver (1905). The Ancient Races of the Thebaid. Clarendon Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=gYoTAAAAYAAJ. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Jenifer H Wegner, David Randall-MacIver: Explorer of Abydos and Curator of the Egyptian Section, Penn Museum, vol 48, no. 2, pp. 13-14

External links

• Works written by or about David Randall-MacIver at Wikisource

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Name	Randall-Maciver, David
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Date of birth	31 October 1873
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Date of death	30 April 1945
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