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The *Baakaa and Other Puzzles: Foraging and Food-Producing Peoples in the Western Central African Rainforest

The *Baakaa and Other Puzzles: Foraging and Food-Producing Peoples in the Western Central African... <p>Abstract:</p><p>While Baka and Yaka, two large, neighboring forager groups in the Central African Rainforest, underwent language shift involving distinct farming populations of the Mundu-Baka and Bantu family, respectively, they share many other traits and are assumed to descend from a common *Baakaa ancestor. We argue against the hypothesis that this group migrated to its wider Inter-Ubangi-Sangha location alongside food-producers. More plausibly, it had already settled there and adopted different languages of newly incoming groups. Certain similarities also reflect inter-forager contact without any food-producer involvement. Our historical reassessment has important repercussions for both rainforest prehistory and the Bantu expansion at large.</p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

The *Baakaa and Other Puzzles: Foraging and Food-Producing Peoples in the Western Central African Rainforest

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University of Nebraska Press
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Copyright © Trustees of Indiana University
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1944-6527

Abstract

<p>Abstract:</p><p>While Baka and Yaka, two large, neighboring forager groups in the Central African Rainforest, underwent language shift involving distinct farming populations of the Mundu-Baka and Bantu family, respectively, they share many other traits and are assumed to descend from a common *Baakaa ancestor. We argue against the hypothesis that this group migrated to its wider Inter-Ubangi-Sangha location alongside food-producers. More plausibly, it had already settled there and adopted different languages of newly incoming groups. Certain similarities also reflect inter-forager contact without any food-producer involvement. Our historical reassessment has important repercussions for both rainforest prehistory and the Bantu expansion at large.</p>

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Anthropological LinguisticsUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: May 11, 2022

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