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SUMMERS1 in Southern Rhodesia has examined the distribution of prehistoric sites (that is, containing traces of ancient man), and the historic routes followed by invaders and pioneers since 1823, and concluded that there was throughout the whole prehistoric and historic periods “a marked aversion to Mopane woodland” (that is, deciduous woodland dominated by Colosphermum mopane and now occurring especially in the Zambezi and Limpopo valleys). He suggests that this aversion was because of the presence of the tsetse Glossina morsitans in mopane areas.
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GLASGOW, J. Tsetse in the Environment of Ancient Man in Southern Rhodesia. Nature 197, 414 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197414a0
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