Who Were the Later Pleistocene Eastern Africans?

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Title:	Who Were the Later Pleistocene Eastern Africans?
Author:	Schepartz, L.A.
Year:	1988
Periodical:	African Archaeological Review
Volume:	6
Pages:	57-72
Language:	English
Geographic term:	East Africa
Subjects:	Khoikhoi San prehistory Anthropology and Archaeology
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01117112
Abstract:	A later Pleistocene Khoisan peopling of eastern Africa has been suggested by most researchers. The evidence cited consists of a few isolated crania, archaeological occurrences described as 'Wilton', rock paintings and scattered populations of present-day hunter-gatherers speaking languages with clicks and viewed as bearing some physical resemblances to living Khoisan groups. When these different lines of evidence are evaluated, it is clear that there is no strong basis for retaining the concept of later Pleistocene Khoisan populations in eastern Africa. Instead, the available data suggest that the later Pleistocene and Holocene eastern Africans were tall, linear peoples. Bibliogr., sum. also in French.