- Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 26902 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Voandzeia subterranea | Entry Book Number | 16.1950 | |
| Artefact Name | Vernacular Name | ||||
| Iso Country | Zimbabwe | TDWG Region | Zimbabwe | ||
| Parts Held | Geography Description | South Rhodesia, Inyanga, Niekirk Ruins | |||
| Uses | Use: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Archaeological | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Wild Dr H | Donor No | 1 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Site XVB IRF. Specimens found in Niekirk ruins. The Van Niekirk Ruins - are a vast system of stone terraces, rough stone dwelling circles and pits on the Western side of Inyanga, South Rhodesia. They are presumed by modern archaeologiststo, have been inhabited some 800 years ago (more or less contemporaneously with Zimbabwe) by a Bantu people with a high level of iron age culture who had a system of agriculture involving the use of irrigation furrows, stone terracing and fortified pits in wh, ich their animals (a small breed of cow probably) were kept almost permanently. They adopted this system of agriculture and type of building presumably as the result of pressure from other raiding and pastoral tribes. The seeds shown here were recovered f, rom old fire places which were opened up in the course of normal archaeological investigations. They are all completely carbonised and could only be determined by shape. Their interest lies in the fact that they are the same as seeds grown by Africans tod, ay and so reinforce the archaeologists view that the peoples concerned were Bantu and not originating outside Africa, Who would probably have grown crops of Asiatic or European origin and type. | ||||