Livestock First Reached Southern Africa in Two Separate Events

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 8; p. e0134215
• Main Author: Sadr, Karim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 21.08.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Africa, Southern; Animals; Archaeology; Cattle; Commerce - history; Demographic aspects; Distribution; Farmers; Female; Fossils - history; Genetic Variation; Haplotypes; History, Ancient; Human Migration - history; Humans; Infiltration; Innovations; Lithic; Livestock; Livestock - physiology; Male; Migration; Paleontology; Petroglyphs; Phylogeography; River basins; Rivers; Sheep; Stone Age; Toolkits; Watersheds; Africa, Southern; South Africa; Africa

After several decades of research on the subject, we now know when the first livestock reached southern Africa but the question of how they got there remains a contentious topic. Debate centres on whether they were brought with a large migration of Khoe-speakers who originated from East Africa; or w...