The archaeological evidence for the appearance of pastoralism and farming in southern Africa.

ABSTRACT: This paper is a response to the growing reference to archaeological evidence by linguists and geneticists interested in the spread of early farmers and pastoralists in southern Africa. It presents two databases. The first contains the archaeological evidence for pastoralism and farming in southern Africa, for the period 550 BC to AD 1050. This is the first time that the seven different types of archaeological evidence that have traditionally been used to identify both spread events are presented together at this scale. This was stimulated by our interest in investigating the antiquity of an early 'Iron Age package' relative to the spread of single archaeological traits. The analysis shows that the package appears approximately 700 years after sites containing pottery, cattle and sheep, wit

SUBMITTER: Lander F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6002040 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature