Lyaya et al. uncovered evidence that the western sides of these structures housed up to four furnaces used to smelt iron in pre-modern settlements at Chongwe. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these structures that some Zambian chieftains preferred being buried in to protect from groundwater. The Baoulé and Agni people in modern-day Côte d’Ivoire buried lepers in these structures.
ANSWER: termite mounds [accept anthills; prompt on mounds]
[10m] These people insert branches from different trees into termite mounds to form a type of oracle based on which one is eaten more, part of a broader belief system that an Oxford anthropologist studied in a seminal 1937 text.
ANSWER: Azande [or Zande or Asande; accept Niam-Niam; prompt on Bandia or Vungara or Nzakara] (The unnamed anthropologist is E. E. Evans-Pritchard.)
[10e] The world’s oldest inhabited termite mounds were discovered near the Buffels River in a transnational region named for these Khoekhoe (“KOY-koy”) people. Much later, these people’s chief Hendrik Witbooi allied with rival Herero tribes against a German genocide.
ANSWER: Nama [accept Namaqualand]
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