Male-biased migration from East Africa introduced pastoralism into southern Africa

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Mário Vicente · Stockholm University

Imke Lankheet · Uppsala University

Thembi Russell · University of the Witwatersrand

Nina Hollfelder · Uppsala University

Vinet Coetzee · University of Pretoria

Himla Soodyall · Academy of Science of South Africa

Michael de Jongh ·

Abstract

We propose that pastoralism in southern Africa arrived through male-biased migration of an East African Afro-Asiatic-related group(s) who introduced new subsistence and livestock practices to local southern African hunter-gatherers. Our results add to the understanding of historical human migration and mobility in Africa, connected to the spread of food-producing and livestock practices.

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Forensic and Genetic Research Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

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Published in: BMC Biology

Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 259-259

DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01193-z

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Male-biased migration from East Africa introduced pastoralism into southern Africa

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