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Comment author: cabalamat 24 December 2009 03:04:58PM 1 point [-]

They had twenty thousand people who were armed with rifles, which means that, even if they had a backwards culture, their technology was very far from Neolithic.

Even if you disregard the rifles, the Ndebele were not a neolithic culture, since they worked iron.