Oxford University Press eBooks· 2013
Archaeologies of the Bantu Expansion
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Short summary
The Bantu expansion, a complex series of population movements across Africa over millennia, is best understood not as a single event but as a multifaceted process involving colonization, migration, and diffusion.
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Key points
- The Bantu expansion involved complex population movements across Africa over millennia.
- It is best understood as a multifaceted process rather than a single, simplistic event.
- Evidence combines linguistic classification with archaeological background.
- The phenomenon involved progressive colonization of vast areas south of Central Africa.
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Abstract
This article examines the Bantu languages and their classification and provides archaeological background of the Bantu migration on Western and Central Africa and Great Lakes Africa. Encompassing a series of changes and movements that took place during several millennia over one of the largest continental masses on earth, the Bantu phenomenon cannot be accounted for by a single and simplistic paradigm. It is connected with complex population movements starting north of Central Africa and led to the progressive colonisation of a vast area further south. The discussion concludes that the Bantu phenomenon is best understood as a colonisation, migration, expansion, dispersal, or diffusion.
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Field: Archeology (Social Sciences)
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