Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Bantu Expansion Took a Rainforest Route
A recent linguistic study found that early Bantu speakers crossed through the dense Central African Rainforest 4,000 years ago
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Jul 13, 2023
The study used novel computational approaches and linguistic data from more than 400 Bantu languages to reconstruct the historic migration routes. The project was a collaboration between scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
Publication: Ezequiel Koile, et al., Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route, PNAS (2023). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2112853119
Original Story Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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