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Miss CATON-THOMPSON'S clear statement (NATURE, Oct. 19, p. 619) of her important contributions to the early history of Rhodesia, raises again the problem of the relations of the ruins and mining. Any one of four solutions may be possible: (1) Both ruins and mines may be prehistoric; (2) or both medieval; (3) or the ruins may be relatively modern and Bantu, while the mining may be exotic, may have been begun two or three millenniums B.C. and have been continued until Roman times, and to a small extent by the Arabs; or (4) some of the buildings may be medieval and rough copies of the ancient architecture—for it was the claim that some of the walls which MacIver proved to be medieval had been previously identified as such by South African archæologists, owing to the crudeness of the work, that rendered his results unconvincing.
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GREGORY, J. Early Rhodesian Mining and Zimbabwe. Nature 124, 723 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124723a0
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