San peoples
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The San peoples, or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. Some interpretations of the genetic
ǃKung children in Namibia
Drinking water from the bi bulb plant
Starting a fire by hand
Preparing poison arrows
Khoisan
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Khoisan or Khoe-Sān is an umbrella term for the various non-Bantu indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen and the Sān peoples. Khoisa
San peoples
…remains the standard term in English-language ethnographic literature, although some authors later switched back to using the name Bushmen. The compound Khoisan is used to refer to the pastoralist Khoi and the foraging San collectively. It was coined by Leonhard Schulze in the 1920s and popularized by Isaac…
San man of Namibia
San man collecting devil's claw
San family in Namibia
"Bosjemans frying locusts", aquatint by Samuel Daniell (1805).