vThe breeds of livestock are typical of NE
Africa and not associated
with those the Bantu would bring. The only credible candidate for such
transmission would be Cushitic
pastoralists, although today the nearest populations are very remote from Khoesan
speakers, in central
Tanzania. However, there is every reason to think that Cushitic-speakers would once
have spread much further
south in Africa, perhaps into central Zambia, and that they were assimilated by the
expanding Bantu populations.
The paper will draw together archaeological, linguistic and rock-art evidence to
propose a model for this
meeting of two very different groups in prehistory and its consequences for both.