archeologia: South Africa

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Khoisan or Khoesaan ( KOY-sahn) is an umbrella term for the various non-Bantu indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak click languages. Throughout Southern Africa, they are recognized as the historical communities that predate the Bantu expansion and European colonisation. At the time of European contact, Khoisan peoples had the largest populations in areas climatically unfavourable to Bantu sorghum-based agriculture, from the Cape region to Namibia and Botswana, with scattered populations elsewhere in the region, and were soon displaced from areas conducive to European wheat-based agriculture. They consist of two economic groups, the pastoralist Nama and Damara, and th…

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The Khoisan languages ( KOY-sahn; also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a sprachbund of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph Greenberg. Khoisan is defined as those languages that have click consonants and do not belong to other African language families. For much of the 20th century, they were thought to be genealogically related to each other, but this is no longer accepted. They are now held to comprise three distinct language families and two language isolates. All but two Khoisan languages are indigenous to southern Africa; these are classified into three language families. The Khoe family appears to have migrated to southern Africa not long before the Bantu expansio…

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Bantu-speaking people of South Africa are the majority, ethno-linguistic people of South Africa. They are indigenous southern Africans from Southern Bantu-speaking peoples; whose earliest presence through surviving evidence, in the now "South Africa", is noted between 350 BCE and 300 CE from either the speculated prehistoric migrations called Bantu expansion (5000 BCE to 500 CE), or due to localized back and forth seasonal migratory culture(s) based on shifting cultivation. They are referred to in various census as African, Black, or Native South African.

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Khoisan is a catch-all term for the "non-Bantu" indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. Khoisan may also refer to: Khoisan mythology Khoisan languages, a group of distinct African languages that use click consonants and do not belong to other African language families Khoisan X (Benny Alexander; 1955–2010), South African political activist

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Khoisan indigenous toponymic identity in South Africa

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Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles), including adjacent islands, it covers around 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. With nearly 1.4 billion of the world's population, Africa's population is the youngest among the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Based on 2024 projections, Africa's population will exceed 3.8 billion people by 2100. Africa is the least wealthy inhabited continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, ahead of Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to various factors including geography…

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