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  2. Mapungubwe Collection - Wikipedia

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    The Mapungubwe Collection is on public display at both the University of Pretoria Museums as well as the Mapungubwe Gold Collection new Javett-UP Arts Centre which opened its doors on 24 September 2019. Part of the Mapungubwe Collection is loaned to the Mapungubwe Interpretation Center at Mapungubwe National Park.

  3. Thomas Huffman - Wikipedia

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    Mapungubwe: Ancient African Civilisation on the Limpopo. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. 63 pp. Huffman, T.N. 2006. Maize grindstones, Madikwe pottery and ochre mining. Southern African Humanities 18:51–70. Huffman, T.N. 2007. A Handbook to the Iron Age: The Archaeology of Pre-Colonial Farming Societies in Southern Africa ...

  4. Kingdom of Mapungubwe - Wikipedia

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    Despite locals having knowledge of the sacred site, Mapungubwe was popularly rediscovered on New Year's Eve 1933. The Mapungubwe Collection of artefacts found at the archaeological site is housed in the Mapungubwe Museum in Pretoria. The site is located in the Mapungubwe National Park in South Africa, on the border with Zimbabwe and Botswana. [8]

  5. Golden Rhinoceros of Mapungubwe - Wikipedia

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    The golden rhinoceros of Mapungubwe is a medieval artifact, made from wood which is covered in thin sheets of gold, from the ancient Kingdom of Mapungubwe, which is located in modern-day South Africa. It was found on a royal grave on Mapungubwe Hill in 1932 [1] [2] [3] by archaeologists from the University of Pretoria. The artifact is described ...

  6. Kingdom of Zimbabwe - Wikipedia

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    Around 1300, Great Zimbabwe replaced Mapungubwe as the most important trading centre in the interior, exporting gold via Swahili city-states into the Indian Ocean trade. At Great Zimbabwe's centre was the Great Enclosure which housed royalty and had demarcated spaces for rituals, while commoners surrounded them within the second perimeter wall.

  7. Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area - Wikipedia

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    The Greater Mapungubwe trans frontier conservation area, which is presently being developed will cover an area of 4 872 km 2 in extent with 28% (1 350 km 2) being situated in Botswana with a further 53% (2 561 km 2) situated in South Africa and the remaining 19% (960 km 2) situated in Zimbabwe. The area is of substantial importance for ...

  8. Mapungubwe National Park - Wikipedia

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    The Mapungubwe National Park was declared in 1998. [2] The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape was declared as a National Heritage Site in 2001 and it was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2003. [3] The Museum and Interpretive Centre houses artefacts from Mapungubwe. In 2009, the building won the World Architecture Festival's World Building of ...

  9. File:Ouzman Papers 2014 Review Wikipedia Mapungubwe Museum.pdf

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