Pastoralist Khoe-speaking peoples of the Cape and the arid west (Nama, Korana, Griqua and related groups) distinct from the Bantu-speaking farming societies further east and north; herded livestock across the winter-rainfall Cape and the Namib/Kalahari margins from roughly 2,000 years ago, encountered and displaced by Dutch/British colonization from 1652.
Not an ending: Khoekhoe descendants — Nama, Griqua and kin — endure in Namibia and South Africa. The map hands off to the modern states.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Khoekhoe — the shape you scrub through changes in 400 BC · 501 · 1001 · 1653.
The standard comparative ethnography distinguishing the Khoekhoe pastoralists from the San hunter-gatherers and covering their shared and distinct histories.
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