Editing Great Zimbabwe (section)

===David Randall-MacIver and medieval origin===
The first scientific [[archaeological excavation]]s at the site were undertaken by [[David Randall-MacIver]] for the British Association in 1905–1906. In ''Medieval Rhodesia'', he rejected the claims made by [[Adam Render]], [[Carl Peters]] and [[Karl Mauch]], and instead wrote of the existence in the site of objects that were of Bantu origin. Randall-MacIver concluded that all available evidence led him to believe that the Zimbabwe structures were constructed by the ancestors of the Shona people.<ref>David Randall-MacIver 1873-1945 by David Ridgway, 1984</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Solomon's Mines |pages=RB241 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=14 April 1906}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=The Rhodesia Ruins: their probable origins and significance|last=Randall-MacIver|first=David|jstor=1776233|author-link=David Randall-MacIver|journal=The Geographical Journal|year=1906|volume=27|pages=325–336|doi=10.2307/1776233|issue=4|bibcode=1906GeogJ..27..325R |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1449252}}</ref> More importantly he suggested a wholly medieval date for the walled fortifications and temple. This claim was not immediately accepted, partly due to the relatively short and undermanned period of excavation he was able to undertake.