Table 1.
Databases that present archaeological traits that are related to early southern African farming and pastoralism and that contain either a spatial or temporal dimension.
Table 2.
A summary of the number and type of dates for LSA and farmer sites in Database 1.
Fig 1.
Quantitative spatial distribution of publications relating to LSA and farming research for the period 1950 to 2016.
Table 3.
Total publications for each southern African country as accessed through online academic databases (accessed between 21 July 2017 and 21 August 2017).
Fig 2.
Archaeological evidence for pastoralism and farming for the period 551–351 BC.
Fig 3.
Archaeological evidence for pastoralism and farming for the period 350–150 BC.
Fig 4.
Archaeological evidence for pastoralism and farming for the period 149 BC–AD 51.
Fig 5.
Archaeological evidence for pastoralism and farming for the period AD 52–252.
Fig 6.
Archaeological evidence for pastoralism and farming for the period AD 253–453.
Fig 7.
Archaeological evidence for pastoralism and farming for the period AD 454–654.
Fig 8.
Archaeological evidence for pastoralism and farming for the period AD 655–855.
Fig 9.
Archaeological evidence for pastoralism and farming for the period AD 856–1056.
Fig 10.
The distribution of archaeological sites in Database 1 overlaid onto the distribution map of African languages–note the almost perfect match between modern language distribution and archaeological classification.
Fig 11.
Map to show the distribution of geometric rock art (pastoralist) [58, 59, 60] compared to the distribution of African languages as an illustration of areas which might potentially contain archaeological evidence that has not yet been captured.