The presence of Early and Middle Stone Age human remains and associated archeological
artifacts from various sites scattered across southern Africa, suggests this geographic region …

The present-day diversity of southern African populations was shaped by the confluence of
three major pre-historic settlement layers associated with distinct linguistic strata: i) an early …

The expansion of people speaking Bantu languages is the most dramatic demographic
event in Late Holocene Africa and fundamentally reshaped the linguistic, cultural and …

Ancient DNA studies reveal the genetic structure of Africa before the expansion of Bantu-
speaking agriculturalists; however, the impact of now extinct hunter-gatherer and herder …

The Bantu expansion, which started in West Central Africa around 5,000 BP, constitutes a
major migratory movement involving the joint spread of peoples and languages across sub …

Background While the human oral microbiome is known to play an important role in systemic
health, its average composition and diversity patterns are still poorly understood. To gain …

Twelve human skeletons, approximately 2000 years old, were recovered from the
Faraoskop archaeological site in the Western Cape Province, South Africa (Manhire 1993) …

Objectives We investigated the genetic history of southern African populations with a special
focus on their paternal history. We reexamined previous claims that the Y‐chromosome …

There has been a long-standing debate about the roles of San in the militaries of southern
Africa and the prevalence of violence among the Ju/'hoansi and other San people. The …

Peoples speaking so-called Khoisan languages—that is, indigenous languages of southern
Africa that do not belong to the Bantu family—are culturally and linguistically diverse. They …