Kalahari
a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).
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How to use Kalahari in a sentence
The Kalahari Bushmen of southern Africa continue to resist being turned into farmers and herders.
How the Extinction of Ice Age Mammals May Have Forced Us to Invent Civilization | Nicholas R. Longrich | December 29, 2021 | Singularity HubIn Rationality, I emphasized the rationality of the San, formerly called the Bushman, the hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari, to show that it is not that they’re devoid of logic or probabilistic thinking.
Ostrich eggshell pieces found at the Kalahari site could have been discarded after a meal, he says.
Stone Age culture bloomed inland, not just along Africa’s coasts | Bruce Bower | March 31, 2021 | Science NewsI know from being in the Kalahari Desert there is no quiet like being in that place.
That would be a trudge to take time, indeed; harder than crossing the Kalahari (Note 4) itself.
The Vee-Boers | Mayne Reid
Summoned to surrender, Morenga fled into the Kalahari Desert.
It is exactly the same as we found in the Kalahari Desert, in digging sucking places for water for our oxen.
At another time, Warley would have hesitated before going in search of a stranger in so wild a region as that of the Kalahari.
Hair-Breadth Escapes | H.C. AdamsLivingstone believed that water existed in the Kalahari at no great depth below the surface.
The World and Its People: Book VII | Anna B. Badlam
British Dictionary definitions for Kalahari
/ (ˌkæləˈhɑːrɪ) /
the Kalahari an extensive arid plateau of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. Area: 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles): Also known as: the Kalahari Desert
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