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SINCE their discovery by the ivory trader Adam Renders (1868) the famous Zimbabwe ruins in Rhodesia have formed the rallying-point around which a fierce and even bitter controversy has raged amongst anthropologists and others. The central point at issue is whether these stately relics owe their existence to an endogenous civilisation, which has since vanished, or to an external and highly advanced culture the impact of which, though powerful, was gradually and ingloriously diminished at a remote historical period.
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DART, R. The Historical Succession of Cultural Impacts upon South Africa. Nature 115, 425–429 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115425a0
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