ABSTRACT
The earliest agricultural peoples apparently spread into Zambia from the north or northwest and are known to us only from their highly characteristic pottery. We have no proof whether they were farmers, although it is probable that they were. on the argument that pottery elsewhere in Africa is almost invariably synonymous with the introduction of agriculture. Sheep were kept by the earliest pottery makers in Rhodesia (18) and there is no reason to suppose that their contemporaries north of the Zambesi did not have domestic stock.
