Bushmen

Cultural  

1. The nomadic hunting and gathering peoples of the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. (See hunting and gathering societies and nomadism.)

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Bushmen

But she soon turned her attention to music, learning piano, bass guitar and drums; and making occasional appearances with her dad's band, Urban Bushmen, as a singer.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2021

He said states shouldn’t be forced to redefine “a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2020

Lugging heavy cameras and tripods to all seven continents, they introduced baby boomers and their parents to unusual creatures as well as indigenous groups such as the San, or Bushmen, of the Kalahari Desert.

From Washington Post ● May 9, 2019

Sacks thought of the people who, thousands of years ago, had painted it: the so-called Bushmen, whose descendants, during the colonial era, were driven into the Kalahari Desert and often killed.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

For example, the IKung' Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana have an explanation for the Milky Way, which at their latitude is often overhead.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan