Livestock First Reached Southern Africa in Two Separate Events.

摘要: After several decades of research on the subject, we now know when first livestock reached southern Africa but question how they got there remains a contentious topic. Debate centres whether were brought with large migration Khoe-speakers who originated from East Africa; or traded down-the-line among hunter-gatherer communities; indeed was long history diverse small scale population movements in this part world, one more which ‘infiltrated’ into Africa. A new analysis distribution stone toolkits sizeable sample sub-equatorial African Later Stone Age sites, coupled existing knowledge earliest and ceramics vessels, has allowed us to isolate two separate infiltration events that just over 2000 years ago; along Atlantic seaboard another entered middle reaches Limpopo River Basin. These findings agree well latest results genetic together indicate multiple, small-scale infiltrations probably responsible for bringing