Modelling the spread of farming in the Bantu-speaking regions of Africa: an archaeology-based phylogeography.

Modelling the spread of farming in the Bantu-speaking regions of Africa: an archaeology-based phylogeography.

We use archaeological data and spatial methods to reconstruct the dispersal of farming into areas of sub-Saharan Africa now occupied by Bantu language speakers, and introduce a new large-scale radiocarbon database and a new suite of spatial modelling techniques. We also introduce a method of estimat...

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Main Authors: Thembi Russell, Fabio Silva, James Steele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3909244?pdf=render

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