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  1. Digital Twins at the City and Town Scale: Europe and Beyond

    Article • Internet Archaeology, March 2025, Council for British Archaeology

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  2. Climate Change, Coastal Heritage Digitization, and Local Community Engagement at the Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani World Heritage Site, Tanzania

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  3. Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the meaning and consumption of glass beads in ancient Kilwa Kisiwani, southern Tanzania

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  4. Training and Collaboration in African Archaeology

    Article • African Archaeological Review, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  5. “Unless we Value the Intangible Heritage, the Tangible will never be Safe!” Linking the Tangible and Intangible Aspects of Heritage Sites in Africa

    Article • Heritage & Society, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  6. Fishing Songs from Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania: A Case Study of Intangible Maritime Cultural Heritage on the Swahili Coast

    Article • Journal of Maritime Archaeology, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  7. Historical Archaeology in Tropical Africa: Revolutionary Practices

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  8. When the ‘Asset’ Is Livelihood: Making Heritage with the Maritime Practitioners of Bagamoyo, Tanzania

    Article • Heritage, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  9. Names of Contemporary Wooden Boats of Coastal East Africa: Origins and Meanings

    Article • Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  10. Building a Ngalawa Double-Outrigger Logboat in Bagamoyo, Tanzania: A Craftsman at his Work

    Article • The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  11. Ours or yours? Localizing the ‘mixed sites’ concept for the sustainable preservation of heritage in Africa: the case of Chongoleani Peninsular, Tanzania

    Article • International Journal of Cultural Policy, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  12. Shrines

    Article • December 2021, Wiley

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  13. Usable Pasts Forum: UNESCO and Heritage Tourism in Africa

    Article • African Archaeological Review, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  14. Contemporary Wooden Watercraft of the Zanzibar Channel, Tanzania: Type and Technology, Continuity and Innovation

    Article • The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  15. The Swahili Civilization in Eastern Africa

    Article • March 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  16. Frozen in the Ashes

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  17. Is there Hope for Heritage in Former British Colonies in Eastern Africa? A View from Tanzania

    Article • Journal of African Cultural Heritage Studies, May 2020, White Rose University Press

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki

  18. Community Based Heritage in Africa: Unravelling Local Research and Development Initiatives, written by Peter R. Schmidt

    Article • Journal of African Archaeology, January 2020, Brill

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki

  19. Methodological Approaches to Researching Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Along the Swahili Coast in Tanzania

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  20. Music as a way of communicating research outputs

    Article • International Journal of Heritage Studies, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki

  21. Valuing the Swahili Cultural Heritage: A Maritime Cultural Ecosystem Services Study from Kilwa, Tanzania

    Article • Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki

  22. Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette (Eds.): The Swahili World

    Article • African Archaeological Review, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki

  23. Local people’s interpretations of the hominin footprints at Laetoli, Tanzania

    Article • Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki

  24. Settlement history of the islands on the Pangani River, northeastern Tanzania

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki

  25. The Impact of Small-Scale Development Projects on Archaeological Heritage in Africa: The Tanzanian Experience

    Article • Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  26. Challenges to the retention of the integrity of World Heritage Sites in Africa: the case of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara, Tanzania

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  27. When Did the Swahili Become Maritime? A Reply to Jeffrey Fleisher et al. (2015)

    Article • December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  28. New footprints from Laetoli (Tanzania) provide evidence for marked body size variation in early hominins

    Article • eLife, December 2016, eLife

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  29. Author response: New footprints from Laetoli (Tanzania) provide evidence for marked body size variation in early hominins

    Article • October 2016, eLife

    Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  30. Why Land Here?

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  31. A history of conservation of built heritage sites of the Swahili Coast in Tanzania

    Article • African Historical Review, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  32. Shipwreck Evidence from Kilwa, Tanzania

    Article • The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, June 2016, Wiley

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  33. Potsherds Coated with Lime Mortar Along the East African Coast: Their Origin and Significance

    Article • African Archaeological Review, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki

  34. Equatorial eastern Africa: Quaternary climate change and variability

    Article • Quaternary International, May 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Elgidius E. B. Ichumbaki, Dr Elgidius Bwinabona Ichumbaki