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Southern Africa, especially western South Africa, southern Angola, South-West Africa, Botswana, and the Cape Province
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Khoi-speaking peoples were Late Stone Age communities of southern Africa, including hunters and gatherers as well as herders of long-horned cattle and fat-tailed sheep. Their languages and cultural practices differed from Bantu and San traditions. Archaeological evidence from the southern Cape suggests that some Khoi-speaking groups practiced herding by roughly two thousand years ago, while their distribution extended across dry regions west and south of the Kalahari.
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Khoi-speaking communities formed a major Late Stone Age population across the western half of southern Africa. They occupied dry lands west and south of the Kalahari, including parts of southern Angola, South-West Africa, Botswana, and the Cape Province. Some groups remained hunters and gatherers, while others herded long-horned cattle and fat-tailed sheep in landscapes where cultivation was largely limited to areas near streams and watercourses.
Their survival as distinct linguistic and cultural communities was associated with a partial adoption of food-producing practices. Cave deposits in the southern Cape containing pottery and domestic sheep bones dated to about two thousand years ago suggest that herding techniques had been practiced by Khoi-speakers since Late Stone Age times. This evidence complicates older traditions that explained Khoi presence primarily through a large migration from the north-east.
Khoi-speaking groups interacted with neighbouring hunter-gatherers and later with Bantu-speaking food-producers. Stock-raisers possessed a more dependable food supply, and hunting bands sometimes entered patronage relationships with cattle-owning communities, settling among them or exchanging products while retaining elements of their own culture. These interactions contributed to linguistic and cultural change across southern Africa.
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Southern Africa, especially western South Africa, southern Angola, South-West Africa, Botswana, and the Cape Province
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Khoi-speaking peoples were Late Stone Age communities of southern Africa, including hunters and gatherers as well as herders of long-horned cattle and fat-tailed sheep. Their languages and cultural practices differed from Bantu and San traditions. Archaeological evidence from the southern Cape suggests that some Khoi-speaking groups practiced herding by roughly two thousand years ago, while their distribution extended across dry regions west and south of the Kalahari.
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Khoi-speaking communities formed a major Late Stone Age population across the western half of southern Africa. They occupied dry lands west and south of the Kalahari, including parts of southern Angola, South-West Africa, Botswana, and the Cape Province. Some groups remained hunters and gatherers, while others herded long-horned cattle and fat-tailed sheep in landscapes where cultivation was largely limited to areas near streams and watercourses.
Their survival as distinct linguistic and cultural communities was associated with a partial adoption of food-producing practices. Cave deposits in the southern Cape containing pottery and domestic sheep bones dated to about two thousand years ago suggest that herding techniques had been practiced by Khoi-speakers since Late Stone Age times. This evidence complicates older traditions that explained Khoi presence primarily through a large migration from the north-east.
Khoi-speaking groups interacted with neighbouring hunter-gatherers and later with Bantu-speaking food-producers. Stock-raisers possessed a more dependable food supply, and hunting bands sometimes entered patronage relationships with cattle-owning communities, settling among them or exchanging products while retaining elements of their own culture. These interactions contributed to linguistic and cultural change across southern Africa.