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6. Inskeep, Peopling, 86-93;
E. O.J.Westphal, "The Linguistic Prehistory of
Southern Africa: Bush, Kwadi, Hottentot and Bantu Linguistic Relationships,"
Africa 33: 3 (1963): 237- 65; Christopher Ehret and Merrick Posnansky, eds., The
Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History (Berkeley and
Los Angeles, 1982).
7. Inskeep, Peopling, 94.
8. P. Vinnicombe, People of the Eland (Pietermaritzbiurg, 197 6); J.D. Lewis-
Williams, "The Rock Art Workshop: Narrative or Metaphor?" in Hall et aI.,
Frontiers, 323-27.
9. Inskeep, Peopling, 101-2.
10. Ibid.
I I.
Carmel Schrire, ed., Past and Present in Hunter
Gatherer Societies
(Orlando and London, 1984); R. B. Lee and I. DeVore, eds., Man the Hunter
(Chicago, 1968).
12. Inskeep, Peopling, 112.
13. Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (New York, 1972). I thank Robert
Harms for drawing my attention to Sahlins's book and clarifying his argument.
14. Ibid., 21, 23.
15. Ibid., 29.
16. Ibid., 14, 37.
17. Inskeep, Peopling, I 14- I 5.
18. Khoisan is a coined word. Pastoralists called themselves Khoikhoi and
called hunter-gatherers San. The Khoisan peoples were, of course, Africans; but I
use the term African in the narrower sense to identify the mixed farming peoples