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Rethinking Ingombe Ilede and its hinterland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2017

Kathryn M. de Luna
Kathryn M. de Luna*
Affiliation:
Department of History, ICC 660, Georgetown University, 37th & O Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20057, USA (Email: [email protected])
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The late fifteenth- to early seventeenth-century dates reported by Susan McIntosh and Brian Fagan (above) for the richest burials at Ingombe Ilede challenge well-known narratives concerning trade and politics in greater Zambezia. For example, as the authors indicate, Ingombe Ilede now seems more an outcome of the destabilised politics of Great Zimbabwe than a cause of its demise. The role that the inhabitants of Ingombe Ilede played in the shifting competitions and alliances that characterised political and economic life in sixteenth-century Zambezia must now be addressed.

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Antiquity , Volume 91 , Issue 358 , August 2017 , pp. 1089 - 1091
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2017 

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