So for those curious I have based the main components of the Qamari on three groups
Ancient Substructure in Early mtDNA Lineages of Southern Africa
A genomic analysis identifies a novel component in the genetic structure of sub-Saharan African populations
- The semi-mythical Vazimba known by the stories of Merina as the indigenous people of Madagascar. They are described as dark skin, hairy, short and vegeculturalists who brought about the political structure of proto-Malagasy peoples. The Vazimba queen intermarried into what would become the ruling merina family who were darker than other elites who retained a largely southeast asian appearance and used their royal vazimba heritage as their claim to power of the Island.
- The Akafula. The same source ATL's Qamari people and most likely Vazimba. These are the semi-mythical aboriginal peoples of eastern Katanga, Zambia, Malawi and northern Mozambique. A dark skin, hairy and short people connected to the real Nachikufan complex that existed north of the Zambezi. These peoples were exploiters of rivers, lakes and miombo; were hunters and fishers who used weighted bored stones on digging sticks, used microliths, ground stone axes, scrapers and beaters for bark cloth manipulation. Strangely the traditions of Chewa and other agriculturalists with bantu roots claim the Akafula and not they were metallurgists and taught such traditions to these new migrants along with rainmaking.
- Further north in Tanzania and Kenya nearer to the coast Chagga and other bantu migrants speak of a "little people" who were distinct from the yellow skinned steppe Wasi (Hadza and Sandawe) near Mt Kilimanjaro and surrounding mountainscapes. All the bantu around this region have a rather complex list of terms to denote Banana radically different than everyone else and are not a lexical innovations. Rather their terms align with a yet undiscovered non-bantu/non-khoisan language for "Ensete" a distantly related relative of Banana. Given the record of ensete exploitation of about 100k years old in Mozambique these people may very well have been a distinct semi-agriculturalist ensete culture population whose knowledge of vegetative propagation in ensete may have allowed an easy transition into Banana and Taro brought by Southeast Asians 3-2k b.p.
The American Journal of Human Genetics, 17 January 2013 doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.12.010Overall, the results of this analysis indicate that it is very unlikely that the highly divergent L0k1b/L0k2 lineages were incorporated into the Bantu-speaking populations via gene flow from a population that was ancestral to a Khoisan population in our sample but subsequently lost from the Khoisan population via drift.Instead, these results support the hypothesis that the ancestors of the Bantu-speaking populations carrying the divergent L0k lineages (who now live mainly in Zambia) experienced gene flow from a pre-Bantu population that is nowadays extinct. Alternatively, it is possible that descendants from this pre-Bantu population do exist but have not yet been included in population genetic studies; however, our extensive sampling of populations from Botswana, Namibia, and West Zambia (which includes representatives of nearly all known Khoisan groups) makes it highly unlikely that this pre-Bantu Khoisan population has not yet been sampled.
Ancient Substructure in Early mtDNA Lineages of Southern Africa
European Journal of Human Genetics (2011) 19, 84–88; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2010.141; published online 25 August 2010"The southeastern Bantu from Mozambique are remarkably differentiated from the western Niger-Congo speaking populations, such as the Mandenka and the Yoruba, and also differentiated from geographically closer Eastern Bantu samples, such as Luhya.
These results suggest that the Bantu expansion of languages, which started ~5000 years ago at the present day border region of Nigeria and Cameroon, and was probably related to the spread of agriculture and the emergence of iron technology, was not a demographic homogeneous migration with population replacement in the southernmost part of the continent, but acquired more divergence, likely because of the integration of pre-Bantu people.
The complexity of the expansion of Bantu languages to the south (with an eastern and a western route), might have produced differential degrees of assimilation of previous populations of hunter gatherers. This assimilation has been detected through uniparental markers because of the genetic comparison of nowadays hunter gatherers (Pygmies and Khoisan) with Bantu speaker agriculturalists.
Nonetheless, the singularity of the southeastern population of Mozambique (poorly related to present Khoisan) could be attributed to a complete assimilation of ancient genetically differentiated populations (presently unknown) by Bantu speakers in southeastern Africa, without leaving any pre-Bantu population in the area to compare with. . . the fact that our dataset of 2841 SNPs has only limited fine-scale resolution makes the observed strong differentiation of the population from Mozambique even more striking."
A genomic analysis identifies a novel component in the genetic structure of sub-Saharan African populations
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