This old kenyan woman looks part khoisan!

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Originally posted by awale:
I've heard khoisan people use to live east Africa even in north east Africa. Did they effect the gene pool of modern day east Africans? And why did they leave east Africa for? Because of the intruding Bantu's?

This old kenyan woman looks part khoisan!

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Yes hunter gatherer groups speaking click' [Khoisan] langauges were once wide spread throughout Africa.

But know this:

Khoisan - family of languages of southern Africa, including those of the Khoikhoin and the San. - American Heritage Dictionary, online.

Like Bantu and Berber, Khoisan is principally a language group, not an ethnic group.

There are people who speak Khoisan languages who physically resemble many Bantu speakers and vice versa.

There is skeletal evidence of people physically resembling typical Khoisan and or typical Bantu speakers and or combinations of both [like your photo] - found all over Africa from the Northern Coasts to the Southern and going back as far as Border Cave in South Africa 60 thousand years ago, and the Nile Valley 30 thousand years ago.

Biologically, Khoisan speakers share many of the oldest lineages including L1, L2, and L3, mtdna, and A,B and E, Y chromosome with other indigneous Africans.

Not only Eastern Africa but there probably some also in North-western Africa,north-estern Africa [including Sudan and Egypt].