Changing Profile When Encroaching on Forager Territory

Abstract

The history of southern African languages subsumed under “Khoisan” has been subject to a great deal of speculation, which has stemmed in large part from our ignorance about them. In the last two decades, however, our knowledge has grown considerably and a number of earlier views turned out to be misconceptions or at least weak and premature hypotheses, among them the idea of a Macro-Khoisan family. Nevertheless, some insufficiently substantiated claims are still held as conventional wisdom in and outside the field.

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