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Wolofi
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How long has farming been going on in South Africa? I heard there was none until 500 years ago when Bantus moved in with the hunter gatherers.
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Adoption of farming by peripheral hunter-gatherers

Some hunter-gatherer populations in the path of farming expansions succeeded in acquiring livestock and/or crops and some material culture (such as pottery) from food producers, while retaining their own languages, genes, and skeletons. The clearest example is the development of herding among some of southern Africa’s indigenous Khoisan peoples (so-called Hottentots), who acquired livestock and pottery from food producers expanding southward in Africa about 2000 years ago.

Reference: C. Ehret, An African Classical Age, (1998) and C. B. Bousman, African Archaeology, (1998)

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