ANT 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Kalahari Desert, San People, Mbuti People
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Until about 12,000 years ago all humans were foragers. However, environmental differences did create substantial contrasts among the world"s foragers. Animal domestication and plant cultivation began 12,000 to 10,000 years ago in the. The foraging way of life survived into modern times in certain forest, deserts, islands, and very cold areas- places where cultivation was not practicable with simple technology. In africa, we can identify two broad belts of contemporary or recent foraging. One is the kalahari desert of southern africa. The other main african foraging area is the equatorial forest of central and eastern africa, home of the mbuti, efe, and other pygmies . As described by montseta, for example, between 1997 and 2002, the government of. Botswana in southern african related about 3,000 basarwa san bushmen outside their ancestral territory, which was converted into a reserve for wildlife protection. Ethnographic studies in hundreds of societies reveled many correlations between economic and social life.
