Talk:Great Zimbabwe

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City or village?

Is the term "city" really justified for something this size? Wouldn't "village" be more accurate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.195.1.165 (talk) 13:06, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

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Ndebele State 217.15.117.118 (talk) 18:05, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Lemba

Is it necessary to have the paragraph about the Lemba genetic and cultural origins? It is covered in Lemba people, and this level of detail is not pertinent to discussion of the hypothesis of their involvement in Gt Z. Babakathy (talk) 17:20, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

The ancestors of the Lemba are postulated as being the originators of Greater Zimbabwe (a discussion that is repressed in Zimbabwe) so I guess it is pertinent. Although I note there is no note of their semitic DNA which would be especially relevant in that semitic peoples were heavily involved in the trade of ores from the region in History. 2001:8003:70F5:2400:4D5D:CCB:F17F:E633 (talk) 02:51, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm happy not relying on Gayre, but now we have the Lemba claimed sourced only to Bolts and Anderson, both unreferenced. Anderson's main work archived doesn't mention the Lemba at all, saying no black people could be the builders. Babakathy (talk) 09:56, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

@Babakathy Sorry. I'm not at all sure this is ok, but see Lemba people#Migration into Africa. That article has had a lot of pov editing in the past. Doug Weller talk 10:45, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Indeed, as does this one.

What we need in the Lemba section is to be able to summarise research done in the relevant period, as we have on Mauch and Bent and so on.

Bolts I can only find the primary reference, Gayre and his derivatives.

Bolts, W.B., 1777. “Report sent to Mr Andrew Daniel Pollett (Agent for their Imperial Majestics)”, p. 6; Transvaal Argief A497.

Babakathy (talk) 10:52, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

As this is a subsection of history of research would it be better to put Bolts in his correct historic epoch, rather than under Lemba? Babakathy (talk) 10:55, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Probably. But we should use nothing to do with Gayre. If we can't find anything better maybe it should be left out. I thought I'd fixed this some time ago, hopefully I didn't make it worse! Doug Weller talk 13:59, 19 May 2024 (UTC)