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“IT is inconceivable”, says Miss Caton-Thompson in a communication dealing with her recent investigations among the ruins of Rhodesia which we print in another part of this issue, “how a theory of Semitic origin [of the Zimbabwe] could ever have originated. Every detail in plan, building, and contents seems African Bantu.” This, the latest pronouncement on a problem which has been debated for more than half a century, is an emphatic endorsement of a conclusion at which Dr. Randall-MacIver arrived twenty-four years ago. The spade once more has dealt a final blow at romantic but ill-founded speculation. Yet it is not entirely beyond understanding that an earlier generation should have seen in these massive structures the relics of an alien and advanced civilisation.
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Zimbabwe. Nature 124, 605–607 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124605a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124605a0