Armed with iron smelting technology the Bantu of west and central Africa dispersed across the continent, changing its linguistic and cultural landscape. A number of theories have been put forward to ...

Researchers have investigated the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA of 500 individuals from southern Africa speaking different Khoisan and Bantu languages. Their results demonstrate that Khoisan ...

Scientists set out to understand how the demographic changes associated with the Neolithic transition also influenced the efficacy of natural selection. By comparing the genome diversity of more than ...

Researchers have used genetic analysis to model the much-debated migration paths, and mingling patterns, of Bantu-speaking people as they disseminated across Africa. Their results reveal how ...

Why this misperception poses a stumbling block to the spread of the gospel. Following the valuable work of prominent missiologists, it has become commonplace among 21st-century Christians to highlight ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

This press release is available in German. An international team of researchers from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the CNRS in Lyon have investigated the maternally inherited ...