The Bantu Expansion
The Ancients
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The Great Lakes Bantu, the Ones Who Are Still Foraging and Using Stone Tools, Etc.
Ironworking is most prominent in the Great Lakes of these Bantu cultures. It seems to be the Bantu there who learn it from the Sudanese, the ancient Sudanese. And then again, a few hundred years later when they joined, because what's really interesting is that obviously the ones who go down the Atlantic coast and end up in Northern Angola have the same ancestors. But over the period of those few hundred years where they took their alternate paths, when they reunite again, they're completely different. There are the foraging more stone using Atlantic coast Bantu, and then there's the farming iron using Great Lakes Bantu.
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