Toutswe | ancient site, Africa | Britannica (original) (raw)

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Botswana

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  In history of Botswana: Eastern states and chiefdoms
  …dominated by rulers living on Toutswe hill, between about the 7th and 13th centuries. The prosperity of the state was based on cattle herding, with large corrals in the capital town and in scores of smaller hilltop villages. (Ancient cattle corrals are identified by the peculiar grass growing on them.)…
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Southern Africa

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  In Southern Africa: Toutswe
  Whatever the explanation, many of the changes appear for the first time at Toutswe in eastern Botswana with the appearance about the 7th century ce of a new ceramic tradition, new technology, and new forms of social and economic organization. There, larger, well-defended hilltop…
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