Women were mining
Great Zimbabwe: While not explicitly mentioned in the transcript, the reference to significant archaeological sites in Zimbabwe aligns with the known history of Great Zimbabwe, an ancient city built by the Bantu people.
It's African and Sumerian, both.24:56It was the Bantu, the children of Antu, who mined all this and recorded all this history.
The Bantu peoples
The Bantu peoples form an ethnolinguistic group comprising around 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.
There are several hundred Bantu languages.
The total number of Bantu language speakers is in the hundreds of millions, with roughly 350 million in the mid-2010s, accounting for about 30% of Africa's population and roughly 5% of the global population.
The larger Bantu groups have populations of several million each.
Little People
Genetic studies have found that Damara are closely related to neighbouring Himba and Herero people, consistent with an origin from Bantu speakers who shifted to a different language and culture.
The Ngwenya Mine
By about 400AD other, Bantu-speaking, peoples had arrived from north of the Limpopo River.