History of gold and gold mining
History of gold - a bust of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamon When did people first use gold? People have been using gold to make jewelry since the Stone Age. You can find it [...]
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History of dogs and wolves
History of dogs: Footprints of a child walking next to a dog, Chauvet Cave, France, ca. 24,000 BC) Where do dogs come from? Dogs are a kind of wolf. They [...]
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Drawing rock art – African art project
Khoisan painting at Springfontein, Zimbabwe Khoisan rock art was a way for artists in southern Africa to show their dreams and ideas about how the world worked, or should work. [...]
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History of Angola – African History
Kingdom of Ndongo In 1500 AD, some of the people who lived in what is now Angola were Bantu and some were San. A Bantu man from Congo, Kiluanje, probably started the [...]
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African Economy Learning Activity
African salt caravan To have a chance to think about what these economic trades would have meant to African people, imagine you are one of these people (if you're in [...]
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San Rock Art
When did San people start painting rock art? Khoisan rock painting from South Africa San people have been living in southern Africa since there first were human beings anywhere, maybe [...]
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Xhosa – African Language
About 500 AD, some Bantu people moved into South Africa. They spoke their own West African language, Bantu, of course. But after they settled down in South Africa, they learned a lot of [...]
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Medieval African Environment
African environment: the Sahara Desert A drought in the High Middle Ages Another very bad drought hit Africa in the Middle Ages, in 963 AD. Again, the drought led to [...]
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The Khoikhoi and the San – South African History
Early Khoisan art from Blombos Cave, South Africa (ca. 80,000 BC) South Africans get isolated The people who became the Khoisan started to split off from other humans about 200,000 [...]
