Location
In the present day, The Great Zimbabwe is located in city in the rugged south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo, close to the Chimanimani Mountains and the Chipinge District. The site is not far from the country's border with Mozambique, which is located in the southeast of the African continent.
David Randall-MacIver (31 October 1873 – 30 April 1945) was a British archaeologist, who's most famous was his excavations at Great Zimbabwe which provided the first solid evidence that the site was built by Shona peoples.
The pioneering works of MacIver in 1905-6, corroborated since by numerous finds of dated archaeological artefacts and by radiocarbon analysis, have proved that Great Zimbabwe was founded in the 11th century on a site which had been sparsely inhabited in the prehistoric period, by a Bantu population of the Iron Age, the Shona. In the 14th century, it was the principal city of a major state extending over the gold-rich plateaux; its population exceeded 10,000 inhabitants
David Randall-MacIver (31 October 1873 – 30 April 1945) was a British archaeologist, who's most famous was his excavations at Great Zimbabwe which provided the first solid evidence that the site was built by Shona peoples.
The pioneering works of MacIver in 1905-6, corroborated since by numerous finds of dated archaeological artefacts and by radiocarbon analysis, have proved that Great Zimbabwe was founded in the 11th century on a site which had been sparsely inhabited in the prehistoric period, by a Bantu population of the Iron Age, the Shona. In the 14th century, it was the principal city of a major state extending over the gold-rich plateaux; its population exceeded 10,000 inhabitants