Ingombe Ilede | historical site, Africa | Britannica (original) (raw)

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archaeological site in Zambia

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  In Zambia: Archaeology and early history
  …beads near Kalomo and at Ingombe Ilede, near the confluence of the Zambezi and Kafue rivers. The latter burials also included gold beads, copper ingots, and iron bells of a kind later associated with chieftainship. Those metals would have come from south of the Zambezi, but they were probably being…
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history of Southern Africa

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  In Southern Africa: Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe
  …north the 14th-century site of Ingombe Ilede (near the Zambezi-Kafue confluence) probably also owed its prosperity in copper and gold—and its social stratification—to the rise of the east coast trade. Although they do not typify the later Iron Age as a whole, the conspicuous consumption at these sites and the…
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