{"id":65296,"date":"2025-09-26T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=65296"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:46:03","slug":"khoe-san","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/khoe-san\/","title":{"rendered":"Khoe-San"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Khoe-San Latest News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a <\/span><b>new genetic study published in the Cell Press journal <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reveals that <\/span><b>European colonisation strongly altered the genetic ancestry<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the indigenous <\/span><b>Khoe-San peoples<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of southern Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Khoe-San<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Khoe-San<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a <\/span><b>collective term<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the indigenous peoples of southern Africa, encompassing:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>San (Bushmen):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hunter-gatherers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Khoekhoe (Khoi):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Cattle, goat, and sheep pastoralists.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They represent one of the <\/span><b>earliest divergent human lineages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with exceptionally high <\/span><b>genetic diversity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research highlights <\/span><b>sex-biased migration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where <\/span><b>European male settlers displaced Khoe-San men<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while Khoe-San women contributed significantly to present-day genetic lineages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study also shows the impact of the <\/span><b>slave trade<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where enslaved women from <\/span><b>South Asia, Southeast Asia, Eastern Africa, and <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/madagascar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madagascar<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were brought to the Cape by the <\/span><b>Dutch East India Company (VOC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Historical Interactions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>~2,000 years ago:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Eastern African pastoralists and <\/span><b>Bantu-speaking agro-pastoralists<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> arrived, influencing and displacing many Khoe-San groups.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Last 1,500 years:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bantu-speaking groups largely replaced or assimilated Khoe-San populations in eastern South Africa.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>1652 onwards:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dutch East India Company (VOC) established Cape Town; European settlers arrived in waves over 250 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Slave Trade (1652\u20131808):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> VOC enslaved ~63,000 people from Africa and Asia, mostly women, reshaping genetic ancestry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indigenous Khoe-San were also recruited as labourers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/africa\/the-dutch-east-india-companys-colonialism-altered-the-genetic-ancestry-of-south-africas-khoekhoe-and-san-peoples-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>DTE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Khoe-San are indigenous peoples of southern Africa, comprising San (hunter-gatherers) and Khoekhoe (pastoralists), known for their high genetic diversity and status as one of the earliest human lineages. 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