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SINCE Dr. Randall Maelver investigated in 1905 the problem of the age and origin of the Southern Rhodesian ruins, little evidence on the purely archælogical side has been forthcoming, except that Mr. Douslin, then Minister of Public Works in Southern Rhodesia, partially cleared in 1915 the deep deposits in the so-called Western Temple of the Zimbabwe Acropolis. In 1924, Sir Arthur Keith reported that four ancient skeletons found in various gold-mines, and one from Zimbabwe itself, were of Bantu type, but there is no evidence that these skeletons were those of the original miners.
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CATON-THOMPSON, G. The Southern Rhodesian Ruins. Nature 124, 619–621 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124619a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124619a0