Sunday, September 11, 2016

The world's oldest people face a crisis of culture

Caught between modernity and 20,000 years as hunter-gatherers, the San people sit at a crossroads.

An indigenous people in Southern Africa, they are our oldest human ancestors, DNA testing proving the San are direct descendants of the first Homo sapiens. But today their culture, traditions and heritage are at risk of being lost forever.


http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/24/travel/basarwa-botswana-culture-crisis/index.html