Today there are about 130,000 San people in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.They were historically nomadic hunter gatherers; in the past century or so their lives have become ...

Benoit first saw a painting by the San people of a creature that appeared semi-mythical in a book dating to the 1910s. Benoit tracked down the farm in South Africa where it was described — the same ...

Always told she was ‘different’, in 1999 at the age of 16, her world changed. she found out she was San—an Indigenous group, also known as bushmen, who were South Africa’s first people.

The San people were known to include elements from their environment in their artwork. So fossils, which are often found in South Africa, may have influenced their depiction of the mysterious ...

Kalahari desert, South Africa FLICKR, CHARLES SHARP The indigenous San people of southern Africa are commonly studied—scientists are interested in their hunter-gatherer lifestyles, click languages, ...

To the Indigenous Khoi and San people of South Africa, rooibos tea is like mother’s milk, says Barend Salomo. Managing director of the Wupperthal Original Rooibos Cooperative (WORC), Salomo says ...

For the San people of South Africa, the spark that inspired some of their rock paintings may have come from fossils of creatures that went extinct more than 200 million years ago. A study in PLOS ONE ...

The Horned Serpent panel is a section of rock wall featuring artwork of animals and other cultural elements associated with the San people of South Africa, originally painted between 1821 and 1835.

But, as I and a group of fellow ethnographers, together with San people from all over southern Africa, show in a recent paper, such ethical guidelines have flaws.