Tag: EARLY AND LATER IRON AGE COMMUNITIES OF ZIMBABWE

Gokomere is an early Iron Age settlement site in the South Central of Zimbabwe,  dated 5th and 7th Century.  From the anthropological and ethnographic evidence of descendants of this culture, this was a multi-economic community. The culture is closely related to that of Mapungubwe  cultures in Vendaland,  South Africa.

The major impact of Iron Age on the Zimbabwean Plateau was the creation of he Iron Age cultures and communities like Ziwa, Gokomere, Leopard's kopje nd Bambadyanalo Archaeological discoveries and Early Iron Age settlements re shown all over Southern Africa into Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique and outh Africa. These communities began the Metropolitan Zimbabwean ettlement and became the major political, social and economic attractions. Most of the archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic studies have bee ntered on the Metropolitan settlements ignoring the provincial settlements.