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dc.contributor.authorHuffman, T.N.
dc.coverage.spatialZimbabween_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-23T09:48:47Z
dc.date.available2014-09-23T09:48:47Z
dc.date.issued1974
dc.identifier.citationHuffman, T.N. (1974) 'Ancient mining and Zimbabwe', Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, January 1974.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4475
dc.description.abstractAncient gold mining and Zimbabwe have been commonly associated for over a hundred years, either in terms of an exotic colony for gold export or as an African state based on the East Coast trade. The stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates from Zimbabwe and the known sequence for the Rhodesian Iron Age demonstrate that Zimbabwe was built after A.D. 1000. A review of the evidence for ancient gold mining shows a similar antiquity, and a complementary rise in prosperity in Arab settlements on the East Coast indicates that gold was not extensively mined until the eleventh century. Large quantities of imported articles at Zimbabwe indicate the extent of trading during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and the origins of Zimbabwe probably lay in an overflow of wealth from the gold trade during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Zimbabwe was abandone'd by the sixteenth century because’ of environmental factors.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en_GB
dc.subjectEconomic Developmenten_GB
dc.titleAncient mining and Zimbabween_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Zimbabween_GB


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