An Ancient African Kingdom
The archaeological remains of a powerful ancient African kingdom that thrived between 900 and 1300 A.D. will likely become the major attraction in a proposed new conservation area currently under negotiation between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Known as Mapungubwe, the site represents an African Iron Age kingdom, the archaeological remains of which evidences a sophisticated social organization with trading ties that extended as far as Arabia and India. For its time, it was Africa's largest and most powerful kingdom.
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Read about an archaeological field school being conducted in the area, focusing on the evidence for early and middle stone age hominid activity. A visit to Mapungubwe is included as part of the program of studies.
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