Great Zimbabwe was the first major city in southern Africa, home to an estimated 18,000 people at its peak.
was the first major city in southern Africa, home to an estimated 18,000 people at its peak. Yet no one really knows why it now lies in ruins.sometimes boiled down to drought and a drying climateA team of researchers from Denmark, South Africa, England, and Zimbabwe argue that a series of large, circular depressions known as 'dhaka' pits, found around the city, were not used for digging up clay, as experts once thought, but for capturing water.
By collecting rainwater and cordoning off some parts of a river or stream, researchers argue the people who once lived here could have ensured water was available for drinking and agriculture through most of the year, even in dry season. The new perspective of Great Zimbabwe's dhaka pits was made possible by using airborne laser scanning to survey the major features of the site, even in places with thick vegetation.
In the heyday of Great Zimbabwe, between the 11th and 15th centuries, the city was home to ruling elites, religious leaders, craftsmen, and merchants, all of whom would have shared spring water and rainwater in an integrated and flexible system.
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