Gokomere

Last updated February 22, 2025

Gokomere is a culture in Zimbabwe, known for its rock art and pottery traditions dating from 200 to 650 AD.^[1]

The ancient Bantu people who inhabited the area of Great Zimbabwe around the 4th century AD probably built the complex between 1000 and 1200 AD.^[2] The Gokomere traded via ancient trading routes over the Chimanimani Mountains on the current Zimbabwe-Mozambique border with the Swahili civilization on the Kenyan and Tanzanian coast. This group is believed to have given rise to the Shona peoples..^[1]

Gokomere also refers to a school located close to the town of Masvingo.

References

1 2 Konczacki, J. M.; Konczacki, Z. A. (11 January 2013). An Economic History of Tropical Africa: Volume One : The Pre-Colonial Period. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-27077-2.
↑ Huffman, Thomas N. (29 June 2021). "Bambata Pottery and Western Bantu: re-interpreting the Early Iron Age in southern Africa". Southern African Humanities. 34: 1–17–1–17. ISSN 2305-2791.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Konczacki, J. M.; Konczacki, Z. A. (11 January 2013). An Economic History of Tropical Africa: Volume One : The Pre-Colonial Period. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-27077-2.

[2] Huffman, Thomas N. (29 June 2021). "Bambata Pottery and Western Bantu: re-interpreting the Early Iron Age in southern Africa". Southern African Humanities. 34: 1–17–1–17. ISSN 2305-2791.

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