Later, it was taken across the sea to East Africa and may have been taken inland at the time of the Great Zimbabwe civilization.

Parfitt had this artifact radio-carbon dated to about 1350, which coincided with the sudden end of the Great Zimbabwe civilization.

Great Zimbabwe

After the decline of Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe rose on the Zimbabwe Plateau.

These building techniques were enhanced and came into maturity at Great Zimbabwe, represented by the wall of the Great Enclosure.

Great Zimbabwe flourished by trading with Swahili Kilwa and Sofala.

The rise of Great Zimbabwe parallels the rise of Kilwa.

Great Zimbabwe was a major source of gold.

Around the 1420s and 1430s, Great Zimbabwe was on the decline.

This tradition was part of the eastern stream of Bantu expansion ( sometimes called Kwale ) which originated west of the Great Lakes, spreading to the coastal regions of southeastern Kenya and north eastern Tanzania, and then southwards to Mozambique, south eastern Zimbabwe and Natal.

This Kalanaga state further refined and expanded upon Mapungubwe's stone architecture, which survives to this day at the ruins of the kingdom's capital of Great Zimbabwe.

Kathleen Kenyon's first field experience was as a photographer for the pioneering excavations at Great Zimbabwe in 1929, led by Gertrude Caton-Thompson.

* Great Zimbabwe

Samarium-neodymium dating | Sm / Nd isochron dating | isochron plotted of samples from the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe.

The Swahili people had various extensive trading ports dotting the coast of medieval East Africa and Great Zimbabwe had extensive trading contacts with Central Africa, and likely also imported goods brought to Africa through the Southeast African shore trade of Kilwa in modern-day Tanzania.

The Great Rift runs from the Mediterranean along both sides of the Red Sea south through Ethiopia and the lake country of East Africa, gradually disappearing in the area of Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

* Work begins on the Great Enclosure at Great Zimbabwe, built of un-cemented, dressed stone.

* Construction begins on the Great Zimbabwe National Monument, sometime in the century.

* Construction at Great Zimbabwe begins ( approximate date ).

They recorded a wealth of information about the Mutapa kingdom as well as its predecessor, Great Zimbabwe.

According to Swahili traders whose accounts were recorded by the Portuguese historian João de Barros, Great Zimbabwe was an ancient capital city built of stones of marvellous size without the use of mortar.

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