Someone either woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, or was never taught not to be snotty in kindergarten. Either way, let’s try to be respectful. Nobody said you were wrong, I was just confused as to the terminology you used. I actually live in an area with a decently sized Ethiopian diaspora that is almost exclusively Amharic-speaking. So, when I think “Ethio-“, I usually think Semitic... although I know Cushitic languages are more prevalent.
Ok, that's great. I believe I already clarified that I wasn't talking about that time period, though perhaps we could entertain the idea. You say that the settlement of Madagascar was interwoven with the spice trade and you said something earlier about Chinese Muslims using "it" (Madgascar, Zanzibar, the coast of Mozambique?) as a trading hub. Can you elaborate more on what you're talking about and how it relates to the subject at hand, which is how to get Dravidians to Madagascar and possibly the continental coast of Africa (maybe even further inland) and make up the ethnic majority, preferably during Classical Antiquity if at all possible?
Would you care to elaborate here? What is the "major economic incentive" that drew Austronesians from the Barito River in Borneo to Madagascar?
The first paper you cited doesn't anything about Afroasiatic-speakers, but rather Khoisan pastoralists, while the second one talks about them having migrated well after the time period I was originally talking about. I guess he is technically incorrect however that Afroasiatic-speakers "never" made it south of the Horn, but... they apparently didn't do so in such numbers to outlast the Bantu, did they?
lolling me because you don't know about the topic is snotty, I retorted in kind.
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The first paper is talking about the "Eurasian" input (It's a simple way of saying people without Archaic African ancestry Afrasian vs Paleoafrican).
Its related not to Afro-Asiatic speakers per se, rather its related to Cushitic people who migrated down and were absorbed by Nilo-Saharans aka Savanna Pastoral Neolithic (Maasai as an example are descendants of this cultural complex) those who migrated further were themselves absorbed by ancestors of the proposed Khow-Kwadi-Sandawe linguistic family who migrated down the East African Littoral into what is now Southern Africa. The first and second paper are interlinked, the first is for lay people that's simplified, the second had a limited scope in its research.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0134215#sec003"The chronology of all these genetic contributions is relatively imprecise. Estimates based on shared E-M293 haplotypes indicate that gene flow between eastern and southern African populations most likely occurred between 1200 and 2700 years ago (standard error bounded by 40–5000 years ago [30]). The admixture event which introduced Eurasian genetic traits, and which had the largest demographic impact in Khoisan populations that speak Khoe–Kwadi languages, can be dated to ∼900–1800 years ago [160]. And the analyses of the LCT region and genome-wide data among southern Africans show that the pastoralist Khoe originate from a San group that adopted pastoralism, with introgression from an East African Afro-Asiatic group that migrated south prior to 1300 years ago [29]. Using the Maasai and Ju|’hoansi as potential parental populations to the Nama, an admixture date of 1143 ± 74 years is indicated. Using the Afar, Amhara, and Tigray instead of Maasai, the admixture dates would be somewhat older around 1255 years ago [29]. It is interesting to note the diversity of these chronological estimates, and that many are too recent to correspond to the earliest infiltrations of livestock into southern Africa. All this suggests that many separate infiltration events brought East African cultural, economic and genetic traits into southern Africa over a long time span. With the help of large scale patterns in the distribution of stone toolkits, ceramics and faunal remains, we have been able to isolate two of the events which infiltrated the first livestock into southern Africa."
Also "Khoisan" is not a real term of any linguistic or genetic merit, its just a wastebin term of all the click language speakers in Africa that are yellow skinned.
I post simple stuff because lets be real, this isn't a forum filled with people who put much time in Africa until its a "____ colonizes *insert piece of africa* thread" which quite frankly is irksome without folks doing research.
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Anyways I'll right back to those other questions of yours and why I think its ASB to have dravidians in Madagascar. You also don't seem to have a lot of understanding about WIO trade because I know I'm making sense right now.