The first migrants came with the Coastal Migration/Southern Dispersal 65,000 years ago, whereafter complex migrations within South and Southeast Asia took place. West Asian (Iranian) hunter-gatherers migrated to South Asia after the Last Glacial Period but before the onset of farming.

The classroom will focus on: when, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa. The first section will look at the interaction with the Khoisan, specifically the principle of generous acceptance of other people.

Map of selected wild crop progenitors in India in relation to the hypothetical south Indian centre of plant domestication and the Southern Neolithic. Indicated is the savannah-scrub vegetation...

First Farmers in South India: The role of internal processes and external influences in the emergence and transformation of south India's earliest settled …

African farmers arrived in southern Africa around 250 AD, which is about 1 000 years ago, from further north in Africa. They were Bantu-speaking people and lived in an era that archaeologists call the Iron Age.