!Kung-San Bushman

The !Kung San are hunting and gathering people of southern Africa who live south of the Congo basin. For about three hundred years they have been called "Bushmen," but since that term now has pejorative connotations are now called the "San" or "!Kung San." They have lived in southern Africa for over 10,000 years, and archaeological evidence has suggested that their ancestors may have been in the area several thousand years before that.

Over the past few thousand years, however, the San have be

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l. The men, in contrast, spend much of their time hunting. The !Kung try for the larger animals of the Kalahari such as giraffes, wildebeest, etc. One of the principle reasons for this is that the amount of meat that can be used from large kills allows the !Kung the luxury of not hunting for several days in a row. In that case, they often spend their times with rock and shell games, retelling oral traditions in the form of stories, and amusing themselves with conversations. Of course, the main work that the !Kung do surrounds the subsistence work of survival: hunting and gathering. They must also spend time making and maintaining their tools and supplies. The work is carried out by all members of society as soon as they are able, roughly from about four years of age until death. In actual time spent, the !Kung work only about 50 percent of the time - the rest of the time is spent in social activity and results from the manner in which every person in society works at an intensive rate for a few days, and then takes a few days off. Marriage happens at a young age for the San, and may occur as early as ten or eleven years old. Child bearing soon follows, with a woman's most productive years being from age twelve to twe
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