Human burials indicate climate-mediated shifts in South African agriculturalist demography after 2000 years ago

Abstract South Africa’s Iron Age (c. 250 CE – 1850 CE) was a period of socio-economic transitions. With the spread of Bantu-speaking peoples from western Africa, the region saw the development of settled agriculturalist societies, the rise of complex chiefdoms, and the development of early states su...

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Main Authors: Emma Loftus, Maryna Steyn, Marlize Lombard, Brian M. Chase
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-05471-6
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