<![CDATA[For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it.]]>For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. This despite all the evidence & Zimbabwe meaning 'houses of stone' in the Shona language.

The ancient aliens industry applies the same logic to Sacsayhuamán in Peru.

Yet nobody questions who built the impressive structures in Rome or Greece.

Sunday's Drystone Diary will explore Whose History Is Worth Keeping?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/50687028-6077-4358-a552-df5dababcd20/for-decades-descendants-of-the-people-who-built-great-zimbabwe-were-told-by-colonial-archaeologists-that-they-couldn-t-possibly-have-built-it.RSS for NodeFri, 12 Jun 2026 06:47:16 GMTWed, 10 Jun 2026 07:03:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:01:56 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris https://www.flickr.com/photos/23766603@N07/53227477911/in/datetaken/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://archaeo.social/users/ArchaeoIain/statuses/116729952099817030https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://archaeo.social/users/ArchaeoIain/statuses/116729952099817030Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:01:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:58:26 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris
Just thank you for grounding my morning. Please keep writing (and walling).

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/tompearce49/statuses/116729938356293051https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/tompearce49/statuses/116729938356293051Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:58:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:53:41 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://archaeo.social/users/ArchaeoIain/statuses/116729919669615563https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://archaeo.social/users/ArchaeoIain/statuses/116729919669615563Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:53:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:34:17 GMT]]>@Timothyswallehz Not as much as I would like, there is so much to know.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/kristiedegaris/statuses/116729843358363419https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/kristiedegaris/statuses/116729843358363419Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:34:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:58:44 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris Sacsayhuaman is one of the absolutely greatest structures ever

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://archaeo.social/users/ArchaeoIain/statuses/116728995815938342https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://archaeo.social/users/ArchaeoIain/statuses/116728995815938342Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:58:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:49:03 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris
It seems you are an explorer
Do you know any thing about africa

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115736765628731465/statuses/116727542174674044https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115736765628731465/statuses/116727542174674044Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:49:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:35:06 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris it’s an amazing place. Lucky enough to visit almost 30 years ago.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/PaddyTech/statuses/116727015421027135https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/PaddyTech/statuses/116727015421027135Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:35:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:55:42 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris Honestly, it's more surprising there aren't more ruins from super early civilisations in the entire Eastern half of Africa given the people who settled there likely had a leg up on the Greeks and Romans by virtue of not having to travel as far to get to the place where the thing was built.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://todon.eu/ap/users/115601049471092408/statuses/116726388657323242https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://todon.eu/ap/users/115601049471092408/statuses/116726388657323242Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:55:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:53:46 GMT]]>@CountHoldem @kristiedegaris

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/ap/users/115691859295411580/statuses/116726381065791985https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/ap/users/115691859295411580/statuses/116726381065791985Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:53:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:24:03 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris Wow!

The Great Zimbabwe structure immediately reminds me of the ancient dún fortresses here in Ireland, such as Dún Aonghusa.

Thank you for sharing this (and f'ck colonialists and racism!).

(Image source: https://heritageireland.ie/visit/places-to-visit/dun-aonghasa/)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/clickhere/statuses/116726264190380506https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/clickhere/statuses/116726264190380506Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:24:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:10:16 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris The 'other side' of putting the lime in the coconut, is mixing lime with a natural binder, like coconut 'hair', then packing it into dirt blocks/construction.

I hear it holds up quite well.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115482733208514503/statuses/116726209992137785https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115482733208514503/statuses/116726209992137785Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:10:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:00:35 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris
It means what? lol that's bonkers

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/EndlessMason/statuses/116725935976155702https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/EndlessMason/statuses/116725935976155702Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:00:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:43:28 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris A friend just came back from Peru, sent me several pictures of Sacsayhuamán, including one with a person standing in front, to show size. What an achievement! And I've shared pics with you of the amazing walls in Chaco Canyon. Humans did amazing things with stone. (Not aliens.)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/ColesStreetPothole/statuses/116725868662895874https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/ColesStreetPothole/statuses/116725868662895874Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:43:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:35:32 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris The walls in Peru feature in a Netflix series which really wound me up. The presenter argued that ancient peoples had some kind of fire sword to cut the stone and give the "melted" appearance.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.huginn.uk/users/tom/statuses/116725837512185400https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.huginn.uk/users/tom/statuses/116725837512185400Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:35:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:34:05 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris Classical archaeology has been plagued by similar colonialist and racist attitudes, which sought to undermine continuity from ancient Athenians or Mycenaeans or Romans to the populations of the emerging nineteenth-century nation states. You can still see it in arguments defending the retention of the Parthenon sculptures, for example.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/iaruffell/statuses/116725831785631986https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/iaruffell/statuses/116725831785631986Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:34:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:11:57 GMT]]>@Timothyswallehz I am interested in stone structures and Zimbabwe has some of the best

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/kristiedegaris/statuses/116725744766906528https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/kristiedegaris/statuses/116725744766906528Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:11:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:06:25 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris Zimbabwe mentioned! 😁😁😁

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JosephTJames/statuses/116725722975122810https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JosephTJames/statuses/116725722975122810Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:06:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:49:19 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris "I am a drystone waller/All day I drystone wall./ Of all appalling callings/Drystone walling's worst of all." - Pam Ayres (Though I suspect she never tried hedging with thorn bushes.)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/116725419826014346https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/116725419826014346Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:49:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:33:08 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris Amusing that the Greeks called the Mycenaean walls "Cyclopean", because they didn't believe their ancestors could have shifted the enormous boulders, and it must have been the Cyclopes (one-eyed giants) who did it.

My point being that there seems to be a general tendency to say "I don't understand how they managed that massive building project, so it must have been giants/aliens/an advanced civilisation we know nothing about" when ancient cultures inc Africans were VERY CLEVER.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mcr.wtf/users/HarrietMonkhouse/statuses/116725356194654505https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mcr.wtf/users/HarrietMonkhouse/statuses/116725356194654505Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:33:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:24:59 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris Ah, the oldest trope in archaelogy pop culture; Egyptians didn't build the pyramids and if they did then they Ancient Egyptians have nothing whatsoever to do with Modern day Egyptians! (whose DNA has got corrupted or something)

🙄

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/harib_murshidi/statuses/116725324171043056https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/harib_murshidi/statuses/116725324171043056Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:24:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:49:46 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris
How do you come to know some facts of Zimbabwe

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115736765628731465/statuses/116725185707558000https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115736765628731465/statuses/116725185707558000Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:49:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:40:51 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris sorry, that's very interesting, I knew nothing about it
There's still someone that says they are not local creation? I read that these theories were demolished in 1930 and even before...
History has always been bent for other interests, political and economical ones
Even the same European history has been deformed and used, so many times...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sociale.network/users/filobus/statuses/116725150584970949https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sociale.network/users/filobus/statuses/116725150584970949Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:40:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:22:34 GMT]]>@Timothyswallehz No, I live in Scotland.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/kristiedegaris/statuses/116725078693823925https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/kristiedegaris/statuses/116725078693823925Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:22:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. on Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:17:55 GMT]]>@kristiedegaris
Wow I live I africa but I have heard about it
Do you live in africa

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115736765628731465/statuses/116725060402287268https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115736765628731465/statuses/116725060402287268Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:17:55 GMT