Roger Summers

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Roger Summers (1907-2003) was a Zimbabwean archaeologist, who worked for the National Museums and Monuments Commission from 1947 - 1970 and was described as "a major influence in the formative years of Zimbabwean, then. Rhodesian, archaeology".{{cite journal|title=Roger Summers 1907-2003|last=Soper|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Soper|doi=10.1080/00672700309480373|journal=Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa|volume=38|year=2003|pages=217–218}} He came into conflict with the Rhodesian government due to his refusal to deny the African origins of Great Zimbabwe.{{cite book|author=De Baets, A.|title=Censorship of Historical Thought — a World Guide 1945–2000|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=London|year=2002|url=http://arts.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/FILES/publications/general/Historical/2002/debaets_zimbabwe/zimbabwe.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327114818/http://arts.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/FILES/publications/general/Historical/2002/debaets_zimbabwe/zimbabwe.pdf|archive-date=2009-03-27}} He worked extensively on Great Zimbabwe,{{cite book|last=Summers|first=Roger|year=1970|chapter=The Rhodesian Iron Age|editor1=J.D. Fage |editor2=Roland Oliver|title=Papers in African Prehistory|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-09566-2}} Nyanga{{cite journal|title=Inyanga: a preliminary report|first=Roger|last=Summers|journal=Antiquity|year=1952}}{{cite book|first=Roger|last=Summers|title=Inyanga: prehistoric settlements in Southern Rhodesia|year=1958|publisher=University Press|pages=335}} and more generally on the Iron Age in Zimbabwe{{cite journal|title=The Iron Age of Southern Rhodesia|first=Roger|last=Summers|journal=Current Anthropology|volume=7|year=1966|pages=463–484|doi=10.1086/200753}}

and on ancient mining in Zimbabwe{{cite journal|title=Ancient Mining in Rhodesia|first=Roger|last=Summers|journal=Museum Memoir|volume=3|year=1969|publisher=Mardon Printers|pages=236}}