ScienceThe migration that transformed Africa’s languages, genes, and cultures

People in the ancient kingdom of Great Zimbabwe were skilled ironworkers. Remains of smelting furnaces survive near the city’s ruins, including fragments near Mashava marked by the fingerprints of people who smoothed their clay interiors. The furnaces drew air through a chimney without requiring workers to operate bellows.

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