Schedule
1st Day (Thursday, May 14): Survey panels according to disciplines
| Day 1 | Topic | |
| May 14 | Introduction | |
| Welcome and setting of the symposium: Comrie | ||
| General cross-disciplinary perspectives: Heggarty [Introduction] | ||
| Glossary Genetics Pakendorf/ Barbieri [Glossary] | ||
| (1) Cross-area panel | ||
| Paleoclimate: | Chase: survey (Skype conference) | |
| Archaeology: | A. Smith: major sequences and areas within the Holocene [slides] | |
| Rock art: | B. Smith: survey (Skype conference) [slides] | |
| Linguistics: | Sands: “Khoisan” in and outside southern Africa [slides] | |
| Linguistics: | Gunnink/ Bostoen: Bantu in southern Africa [slides] [handout] | |
| Discussion | ||
| Coffee break | ||
| (2) Regional panel: I Kalahari Basin core | ||
| Linguistics: | Güldemann: Kx’a, Tuu, and Khoe [slides] | |
| Archaeology: | Sadr [slides] | |
| Genetics: | Barbieri: Namibia/Botswana [slides] | |
| Genetics: | Schlebusch: RSA [slides] | |
| Discussion | ||
| Lunch break | ||
| (3) Regional panel: II North(west)ern Kalahari Basin fringe | ||
| Linguistics: | Lionnet: Ju of Kx’a [slides] | |
| Linguistics: | Fehn: Khwe and Kwadi of Khoe-Kwadi [slides] | |
| Linguistics: | Gunnink/ Bostoen: Linguistic substrate in northwestern Bantu [slides] | |
| Archaeology: | A. Smith: Kavango/Makgadigadi [slides] | |
| Coffee break | ||
| Genetics: | Rocha: Angola/northern Namibia | |
| Genetics: | Barbieri: Zambia/northern Botswana [slides] | |
| Discussion | ||
2nd Day (Friday, May 15): Survey panels according to disciplines
| Day 2 | Topic | |
| May 15 | (4) Regional panel: III Eastern Kalahari Basin fringe | |
| Linguistics: | Chebanne/Fehn: Eastern Kalahari Khoe of Khoe-Kwadi [slides 1] [slides 2] | |
| Linguistics: | Güldemann: Eastern ǃUi of Tuu [slides] | |
| Linguistics: | Bailey: Linguistic substrate in southeastern Bantu | |
| Archaeology: | Mazel: Lesotho, Drakensberg, Natal [slides] | |
| Genetics: | Pakendorf: eastern Botswana [slides] | |
| Genetics: | Capelli: Admixture in Bantu-speaking populations | |
| Discussion | ||
| Coffee break | ||
| (5) Regional panel: IV South-western Kalahari Basin fringe | ||
| Linguistics: | Güldemann: Western ǃUi of Tuu [slides] | |
| Linguistics: | Güldemann/Witzlack-M.: Khoekhoe of Khoe-Kwadi [slides] | |
| Archaeology: | Conard: Early coastal foraging [slides] | |
| Archaeology: | A. Smith: Cape and Namibian interior [slides] | |
| Archaeology: | McGranaghan: Forager-food producer contact [slides] | |
| Genetics: | Schlebusch: western RSA [slides] | |
| Genetics: | Pakendorf: Namibia [slides] | |
| Discussion | ||
| Lunch break | ||
| (6) Cross-area panel | ||
| Cultur. Anthr.: | Widlok | |
| Coffee break | ||
| Kinship Syst.: | Boden [slides] | |
| Discussion | ||
3rd Day (Saturday, May 16): Thematic panels according to chronology and questions
| Day 3 | Topic | |
| May 16 | (7) Kalahari Basin prehistory before the advent of food production | |
| Linguistics: | Güldemann: Linguistic blanks in the Kalahari Basin [handout] [map] | |
| Archaeology | Sadr: Interior foraging [slides] | |
| Genetics: | Stoneking: divergence in “Khoisan” [slides] | |
| Genetics: | Schlebusch: selection and split in “Khoisan” [slides] | |
| Discussion | ||
| Coffee break | ||
| (8) Kalahari Basin prehistory after the advent of pastoralim | ||
| a. Domesticates | ||
| Archaeology: | A. Smith [slides] | |
| Genetics: | Beja-Pereira [slides] | |
| Linguistics: | Fehn/Güldemann/Naumann: Linguistics of precolonial domesticates [data] [maps] | |
| Discussion | ||
| Lunch break | ||
| b. People | ||
| Archaeology: | A. Smith: Pros of demic expansion of pastoralism [slides] | |
| Archaeology: | Sadr: Pros of cultural diffusion of pastoralism [slides] | |
Genetics: | Stoneking: Eastern African links beyond Bantu [slides] | |
| Coffee break | ||
| Genetics: | Capelli: Characterising "Khoisan" ancestry in southern Africa | |
| Linguistics: | Hammarström: Numeral systems [slides] | |
| Linguistics: | Naumann: Sound patterns across southern African languages [slides] | |
| Discussion | ||