Early Iron Age site near the southern end of Lake Nyasa, which has given its name to the variant of the Early Iron Age complex represented in southern Malawi and eastern Zambia from about the 4th-11th centuries AD. It is a branch of the Eastern Stream or Urewe Tradition of the Chifumbaze Complex. It is thought that a migration from Nkope resulted in the appearance of the Gokomere Complex in Zimbabwe c 500 AD.