Peter Storr Garlake (11 January 1934 - 2 December 2011[1]) was a Zimbabwean archaeologist and art historian, who made influential contributions to the study of Great Zimbabwe and Ife, Nigeria.
Garlake began his career in African art and archaeology as a Nuffield Research Student, British Institute in Eastern Africa from 1962 to 1964, carrying out excavations at Manekweni in Mozambique.
[2] From 1964 to 1970, Garlake served as the Rhodesian Inspector of Monuments and was on faculty at the University of Rhodesia.
This research was opposed by the Rhodesian government, including the prime minister, Ian Smith,[4] and Garlake was forced to leave the country in 1970.
From 1976 to 1981, Garlake held an appointment as lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at University College London.