Taking
advantage of new resource opportunities
•If so, then this would
have represented a major expansion in huntable and gatherable resources and
that these would divide into two major sets; aquatic and plains
•Specialised foragers
could then develop to exploit these different niches, crudely fishing people
and plains hunters
•This paper argues that
two different populations might have exploited these resources and that this
can be correlated with the expansion of two of Africa’s language phyla;
Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo
•And that this in turn
broadly correlates with two archaeological cultures, the spread of serrated
bone harpoons and the Ounanian, microlithic points, here interpreted as the
spread of the bow and arrow