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People throughout the world know the San – hunter-gatherers in southern Africa; they are known as a lightly built, supple people who once transported their water in ostrich egg shells, tracked large antilopes and extracted poison for their arrows from beetle larvae. The San evolved a way of life with which they were optimally adapted to the arid zones in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe,
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Angola and Namibia including the Kalahari and Namib deserts. Archaeological research shows that the inhabitants of the Kalahari lived until the most recent past from foods found in the wild and thus preserved for millennia the ecological balance in an environment which today hardly exists. The San lived in small, widely scattered groups, whose number was precisely tailored to the specfic area
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