Baranda
Coordinates: 16 ° 43 ′ 29 ″ S , 31 ° 51 ′ 49 ″ E
Baranda is the name of an archaeological dig site in what is now Zimbabwe . The place is not far from the Chesa settlement on the Baranda Farm , east of the city of Mount Darwin and was named after the former owner.
The remains of an old settlement occupy an area of about 15 to 20 hectares . During the prospecting, numerous search cuts across the entire area of the farm yielded remains of conical and cylindrical houses. The excavation also found European imports, most of which date to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but some also date to the nineteenth. Most of the ceramic imports came from the Near and Far East and Europe , mostly from the Iberian Peninsula . The locally produced ceramics represent by far the largest part of the finds. With their decoration, these finds are in the tradition of ceramics from Greater Zimbabwe .
A trading place called Massapa , which can be identified with Baranda, is passed down from Portuguese sources . This was part of the Mutapa Empire , according to contemporary Portuguese reports it was destroyed in the late seventeenth century.
Web links
- TK250 Zimbabwe, sheet SE-31-2 (MOUNT DARWIN) , Salisbury 1981.
literature
- Paul JJ Sinclair, Innocent Pikirayi, Gilbert Pwiti, Robert Soper: Urban Trajectories on the Zimbabwean Plateau In: The Archeology of Africa , edited by T. Shaw, P. Sinclair, B. Andah, A. Okpoko, London / New York 1993, Pp. 726-30, ISBN 041511585X
Individual evidence
- ^ Thurstan Shaw et al .: The Archeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns . Routledge, London 1994, ISBN 978-0-415-11585-8 , The site of Baranda: a case study, pp. 726 .
- ↑ Innocent Pikirayi: The Zimbabwe culture: origins and decline of southern Zambezian states . AltaMira Press, Lanham MD 2001, ISBN 0-7591-0090-X , (Map 6.4), pp. 185 .