Toteng

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Toteng is a village in the north west of Botswana, Ngamiland. The town is the location of the oldest "directly dated evidence of cattle in southern Africa".{{Cite web|title=Oldest dated evidence of cattle in southern Africa found |date=2 August 2005 |publisher=EurekAlert! |url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uocp-ode080205.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607094522/https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uocp-ode080205.php |archive-date=7 June 2011 |url-status=live |df=dmy}}{{Cite journal|last=Robbins |first=Lawrence H. |display-authors=etal |year=2005 |title=The Advent of Herding in Southern Africa: Early AMS dates on domestic livestock from the Kalahari Desert, Botswana |journal=Current Anthropology |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=671–677 |doi=10.1086/432748 }} Nearby towns are Sehithwa and Bobideng to the west, Tsau and Gumare to the north and Maun to the northeast.

The village has both a hospital and a school.

In 2012 the Boseto mine, an open-pit copper mine, was opened in Toteng.{{Cite web |title=Boseto Copper Project, Ngamiland, Kalahari Copper Belt |date=2011 |publisher=Mining Technology |url=http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/boseto-copper/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508192700/http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/boseto-copper/ |archive-date=8 May 2011 |url-status=live |df=dmy }} It closed down in 2015,{{Cite news |last=Mmolai |first=Esther |date=26 July 2015 |title=BOSETO mine set to resume operations |newspaper=Daily News |location=Botswana |url=https://dailynews.gov.bw/news-detail/21718 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20171224220605/http://www.dailynews.gov.bw/news-details.php?nid=21718 |archive-date=24 December 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy }} but is expected to reopen as an underground mine, sometimes known as the Zeta Mine.{{Cite magazine|last=Liedtke |first=Simone |date=26 May 2017 |title=‘Attractive’ copper project advances on back of $50m loan |magazine=Mining Weekly |url=http://www.miningweekly.com/article/attractive-copper-project-advances-on-back-of-50m-loan-2017-05-26/rep_id:3650 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224222929/http://www.miningweekly.com/article/attractive-copper-project-advances-on-back-of-50m-loan-2017-05-26/rep_id:3650 |archive-date=24 December 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy}}