Regional-Global Change Linkages: Southern Africa

摘要: Unravelling the skein of global change effects in southern Africa is a non-trivial task. It made all more interesting since birthplace humanity. Southern preserves an impressive five-million-year record human-environmental interaction. From evolutionary cradle onwards, environmental has profoundly affected development early and later hominids into Homo sapiens (Vrba et al.1995). More recently, over past two millennia, environment was major factor affecting migrations Bantu people southernmost Africa. Until as late nineteenth century, continued to be dominant settlement survival population region.