"Zimbabwe" is the name of the Shona people. Although the translation is different, it may be a stone house. There are many stone walls in the ruins, with high walls as high as 1 1 m (36 feet). They didn't use mortars.
Most areas of Greater Zimbabwe have not been cut, and what are different fences used for? This is the root of the debate among archaeologists. The earliest written record of this city can be traced back to16th century, which means it was abandoned for a period of time.
Today, Greater Zimbabwe is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is regarded as a symbol of modern Zimbabwe. The country adopted the name Zimbabwe in 1980, and used the name given to the city by Shawna a long time ago. There is also a bird sitting on the pedestal of Zimbabwe's national flag, which is the representative of artificial products found in greater Zimbabwe.
Although great Zimbabwe is very important, most of it has not been developed. If the area excavated by archaeologists and professional archaeologists are combined, it is obvious that the excavated area in Greater Zimbabwe is less than 2%. A group of scientists wrote in a paper published in the journal Archaeological Methods and Theory on 20 16:
The redrawing team found that the site covers about 720 hectares (65,438+0,779 acres). "At any time, its area is far less than 720 hectares," they wrote in the Wall Street Journal. They explained that different parts of the city were inhabited at different times, and the earliest evidence of residence can be traced back to around 900 AD.
A part of greater Zimbabwe can be seen from the nearby mountains. (2630ben/Shutterstock？ There is no "lost city", and Greater Zimbabwe has never been a "lost" city; The people of Zimbabwe have always known its ruins. However, when European explorers arrived in this area in the19th century and the early 20th century, they extracted cultural relics from the ruins of Great Zimbabwe and claimed that the city was not built by Africans at all, claiming that it was built by Phoenicians or other groups from Asia or Europe.
The earliest European to describe Zimbabwe was Carl Mocher (sometimes spelled Carl). He lived to 1837 to 1875, and claimed that he had found cedar from Lebanon in greater Zimbabwe. The character "The Queen of Sheba built ruins" mentioned in the Hebrew Bible was written by Innocent Pikirayi, a professor at Pretoria University (located in South Africa), in the book World Cities (1500-2000).
Pi Kilari wrote that archaeologists have always denied that Great Zimbabwe was built by Phoenicians, Europeans or the Queen of Sheba. Now scholars generally believe that Greater Zimbabwe was built by the ancestors of nations such as Shawna in Zimbabwe and neighboring countries.
Climate Zimbabwe is located in the "savanna climate". "The rainfall of 5438+00 in June lasted from April to May," a research team wrote in a paper published in the South African Archaeological Bulletin in 20 16. Rainfall around Greater Zimbabwe is mostly in the form of fog, which is called Guti by local people and accompanied by southeast trade winds.
The research team examined the charcoal found in the site and found that the wood types used by residents were Spirostachys africana and Ranunculus mopane, which may have come from other parts of southern Africa and were used to build the city.
The research shows that Great Zimbabwe declined in15th century; However, climate change is not the cause of recent research.