Settled farmers
There is evidence of settled farmers along the coast of KwaZulu Nat al from at least AD 250.
Herders
Colonial records show that when Khoikhoi lost their animals they lived by hunting and gathering.
Farmers
The change from hunting and gathering to food-producing was a revolutionary step in human history.
Rock Art
Southern Africa has a rich heritage of rock art in the form of engravings and paintings.
Early Khoisan history
New tool-making techniques, and other changes, introduced what archaeologists term the ‘Later Stone Age’ in Southern Africa.
Modern humans emerge
Genetic evidence shows that Homo sapiens (“wise man”)arose somewhere in the savannas of Africa about 200 thousand years ago.
Earliest humans
The earliest humans are represented by fossils from Africa of the genus Homo, dating from about 2.5 million years ago. They were probably the makers of the earliest known stone
Humankind’s African antecedents
The earliest humans, hominins belonging to the genus Homo, arose in Africa about 2.5 million years ago.