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Ancient DNA reveals a multistep spread of the first herders into sub-Saharan Africa
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Elmaestro: [i]"How food production first entered eastern Africa ~5000 years ago and the extent to which people moved with livestock is unclear."[/i] <-- Was this inquiry made clear by this study? food production [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Iron-working first entered eastern Africa via the Lake Victoria Basin ~2500 BP and spread toward the coast by 2000 BP (14). This may have brought early IA farmers – thought to have spoken Bantu languages originating in equatorial western Africa.... Livestock ap-pear in northern Ethiopia and Djibouti relatively late, ~4500-4000 BP (3), and are poorly documented elsewhere in the Horn of Africa and in South Sudan. Instead, the earliest known domesticated animals in sub-Saharan Africa are found in Kenya at the beginning of the Pastoral Neolithic (PN; ~5000-1200 BP) era near Lake Turkana, [b] The young boy buried at Deloraine Farm—the site with the earliest direct evidence of farming in the Rift Valley (Kenya) (32)—shows affinity to western Africans and speakers of Bantu languages (both genome-wide and on the Y chromosome).[/b] I8802 Deloraine Farm Iron Age mt Dna L5b1 Y Dna E1b1a1a1a1a; E-M5 1160 ± 15 1170-970 (Cal) [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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