www.africancraftsmarket.com - (Producers and suppliers of fine
African handcrafted Arts and crafts shipped to the international
market) & PEOPLE - BUSHMAN The 'Bushmen' are the oldest
inhabitants of southern Africa, where they are commonly known as
Bushmen, San, Khwe or as the Basarwa. They have been resident in
and around the Kalahari Desert for at least 20,000 years. Which
spans areas of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Angola. The
terms San, Khwe, Bushmen, and Basarwa have all been used to
refer to hunter-gatherer peoples of southern Africa. They speak
a variety of languages, all of which incorporate 'click' sounds
represented in writing by symbols such as! or /. Genetic
evidence suggests they are one of the oldest, if not the oldest,
peoples in the world were hunter-gatherers, hunting with bows
and arrows, trapping small animals and eating edible roots and
berries. They lived in rock shelters, in the open or in crude
shelters of twigs and grass or animal skins. They made no
pottery, rather using ostric