CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mound Builders, Karl Mauch, Cecil Rhodes
25 Mar 2017
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Is in south eastern africa (be able to identify it on a map as well as greece, Some areas of the walls are poorly built whereas some areas like he tower and the elliptical have more carefully positioned stones: hill ruins ( the acropolis ) plateau that overlooks the city, also include stonewalls. They are topped with a series of small pillars containing sculpted birds. Imports glass beads (near east), glazed ceramics (persian, Chinese), probably cloth: subsistence economy, cattle husbandry, grain cultivation: sorghum, millet, peas, beans, technology: Iron age culture: stone and daga (mud and thatch) construction, adddd, adddd, trade and wealth at great zimbabwe, found in 1903, chinese, persian pottery, painted near eastern glad, pieces of coral, cowrie shells. Was also very racist: david randall-maclver was the first good archeologist to excavate this area, concluded that there is nothing in zimbabwe is for the. It was all made and created by the.
