The Bushmen of southern Africa have medicine dances named after some animals ; the giraffe dance is performed to treat head ailments.

These Bushmen live in huts built from local materials — the frame is made of branches, and the roof is thatched with long grass.

When they reached what is now Angola they encountered the Bushmen and other groups.

The loincloth of Southern African Bushmen, called xai, is a piece of skin roughly T-shaped with long ties at the corners of the arms.

If the Bushmen need to be grouped with the Khoe pastoralist groups, the term Khoe – San is preferred.

It is known in some cultures as the lightning bird, and the Kalahari Bushmen believe or believed that being hit by lightning resulted from trying to rob a Hamerkop's nest.

As the term Bushmen is sometimes viewed as a pejorative, some prefer to be called the San people.

There is a significant linguistic difference between the northern Bushmen living between Okavango ( Botswana ) and Etosha ( Namibia ), extending into southern Angola on the one hand and the southern group in the central Kalahari towards the Molopo, who are the last remnant of the previously extensive indigenous San of South Africa.

The term Bushmen is widely used, but opinions vary on whether it is appropriate because it is sometimes viewed as pejorative.

In Botswana, the officially used term is Basarwa, where it is partially acceptable to some Bushmen groups, although Basarwa, a Tswana label derived from Twa, also has negative connotations.

Children have no social duties besides playing, and leisure is very important to Bushmen of all ages.

Over the generations, the Bushmen of Southern Africa have continued to be absorbed into the African population, particularly the Griqua sub-group, which is an Afrikaans-speaking people of predominantly Khoisan that has certain unique cultural markers which set them apart from other Africans.

N! ai, the Story of a! Kung Woman ( 1980 ) is the account of a woman who grew up while the Bushmen were living as autonomous hunter-gatherers, but who was later forced into a dependent life in the government-created community at Tsumkwe.

* Bushmen Paintings-Around 5 kilometers out of town in one of local caves well preserved Bushmen paintings can still be found.

The first land dwellers to be active in the Bethulie region were the Bushmen, whose various drawings are still in existence in the area.

The Boer goat was probably bred from the indigenous goats ( they orignated from South Africa ) of the Namaqua Bushmen and the Fooku tribes, with some crossing of Indian and European bloodlines being possible.

Other terms used to describe the Khoisan people include Bushmen, referring to the San, and Hottentot, referring to the Khoi or Khoe.

The terms San, Khwe, Sho, Bushmen and Basarwa have all been used to refer to the hunter-gatherer peoples of southern Africa.

Hoodia gordonii, used by the San Bushmen, was patented by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ( CSIR ) in 1998, for its appetite suppressing quality.

The juice of Acokanthera species such as A. venenata and the milky juice of the Namibian Pachypodium has been used as venom for arrow tips by the Bushmen.

This substance is very poisonous and is used by Bushmen to dip the tips of their hunting arrows.

Hoodia is traditionally used by the San people ( Bushmen ) of the Namib desert as an appetite suppressant as part of their indigenous knowledge about survival in the harsh desert conditions.

Similar domed tents are also used by the Bushmen and Nama people and other indigenous peoples in Southern Africa.

The Australian Bushmen ’ s Campdraft & Rodeo Association ( ABCRA ) members who are winners and placegetters in recognised events are awarded points that are used to determine inductees into the annual National Champions Hall of Fame.

It was first settled by Bushmen hunter-gatherer societies before the northern domains came under the rule of Bantu states such as Kongo and Ndongo.

The Kung Bushmen were described as ' The Harmless People ' in a popular work by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas in 1958, while Lawrence Keeley's 1996 War Before Civilization suggested that regular warfare without modern technology was conducted by most groups throughout human history, including most Native American tribes.

In 1870 Bleek and Lloyd, by now working together on the project to learn Bushman language and record personal narratives and folklore, became aware of the presence of a group of 28 ǀXam prisoners ( Bushmen from the central interior of southern Africa ) at the Breakwater Convict Station and received permission to relocate one prisoner to their home in Mowbray so as to learn his language.

San community representatives declared a preference to be known either by their individual community names (! Xun or ‡ Khomani, for example ) or collectively as Bushmen, rather than as San or Khoisan.

Considerable trouble was caused by the emigrant Boers on either side of the Orange River, where the Boers, the Basothos, other native tribes, Bushmen, and Griquas fought for superiority, while the Cape government endeavoured to protect the rights of the native Africans.

The Sandveld of the Kalahari was one of the areas inhabited by the Bushmen, who had adapted to life conditions in the Sandveld since ancient times.

The individual groups identify by names such as Ju /' hoansi and! Kung ( the punctuation characters representing different click consonants ), and most call themselves by the term Bushmen when referring to themselves collectively.

It also found that the Bushmen were " forcibly and wrongly deprived of their possessions " by the government.

The Bushmen of the Kalahari were first brought to the Western world's attention in the 1950s by South African author Laurens van der Post.

In 1955, Van der Post was commissioned by the BBC to go the Kalahari desert with a film crew in search of the Bushmen.

In 1961 he published The Heart of the Hunter, a narrative derived from 19th-century Bushmen stories by Wilhelm Bleek.

By the time this movie was made, the ǃKung had recently been forced into sedentary villages, and the Bushmen hired as actors were confused by the instructions to act out inaccurate exaggerations of their almost abandoned hunting and gathering life.

The director of this movie, Jamie Uys, had also directed Lost in the Desert in 1969, in which a small boy, stranded in the desert, encounters a group of wandering Bushmen, who help him and then abandon him as a result of a misunderstanding created by the lack of a common language and culture.

There are also several Bushmen groups represented by a handful of people.

Peoples that preserved paleolithic hunting-gathering until the recent past include some indigenous peoples of the Amazonas ( Aché ), some Central and Southern African Bushmen ( Hadza people, Khoisan ), some peoples of New Guinea ( Fayu ), the Mlabri of Thailand and Laos, the Vedda people of Sri Lanka, and a handful of uncontacted peoples.

Some historic examples include the Shoshone of the Great Basin in the United States, the Bushmen of southern Africa, the pygmies ( Mbuti ) of the Ituri Rainforest in Africa, and some groups of indigenous Australians.

No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, the Semites, and the Turanians so called.