The passing of the Bushmen.
THE BROKEN STRING: THE LAST WORDS OF AN EXTINCT PEOPLE by Neil Bennun Viking, £17.99, pp. 420, ISBN 0670912506
It was probably doomed to end badly. A hunter-gatherer people, tied for tens of thousands of years to the landscape and its plants and animals, encounters a technologically advanced people of farmers and sheep-herders, who fence the land in and drive away the herds of wild game.
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