The history of South Africa is mostly a story of migration. This does not mean South Africa should continue embracing migration, however, because of the modern-day problem of overpopulation. A lot of diverse people's around the world have sought to make South Africa their home. The first human inhabitants of South Africa were likely to not even have been the KhoiSan. The first hominid inhabitants of South Africa were here 5 million years before present day, followed by stone tool users 1,8 million years ago. It is only after that that hunter-gatherer tribes like the San came 25000 to 8000 years ago followed by the Khoi/Khoi Khoi. Nguni tribes were first so-called Bantu language speakers to arrive in present day South Africa in what is said to be 200 AD by either archaeologists or carbon dating technology. Nguni tribes integrated with the San & intermarried. Sotho & Tswana speaking groups are estimated to have arrived around 800 AD & settled mostly...
• Stone tools created in eastern Africa at Lomekwi in the Turkana Basin 3,3 million years ago . • Tool industry 2,3 million years ago called the Oldowan tool industry. • Acheulean tool industry 1,5 million years ago in Africa spreads to Middle East & Europe 800 000 to 600 000 years ago. • Homo Erectus uses fire 1,5 million years ago. • Bone tools & backed blades by Homo Sapien 90 000 to 60 000 years ago in southern & east Africa. • Oldest rock art at Blombos Cave, South Africa 77 000 years ago (early chemistry ). • Lebombo Bone from Swaziland is the oldest known mathematical artefact which shows 29 distinct notches depicting a month cut into bone around 35 000 BC. • Iron, bronze & brass used in west Africa by 1200 BC. • Swahili traders were major suppliers of gold to Asia in the Red Sea & Indian Ocean trade routes (recorded by north African explorer Abu Muhammad ibn Battuta ). • Steel forging by Haya in Tanzania by 1 BC. • European travelers in th...
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