Volume 88 (2010)

Cover story

Bantu-Khoisan interactions at the edge of the Bantu expansions: insights from southern Angola

For a human population geneticist, an interest in Africa hardly requires an explanation. With the highest time depth of human history and over 2000 linguistic groups spreading across highly diverse geographical settings, Africa harbors a tremendous variety of genetic patterns that remain to be explained. My own interest in African populations started with São Tomé, a tiny plantation island located at the heart of the Gulf of Guinea that was peopled by slaves imported from the adjacent areas of the mainland...

The Journal of Anthropological Sciences (JASs) is the official publication of the Istituto Italiano di Antropologia (ISItA). It is the continuation of the Atti della Societa' Romana di Antropologia (from 1893 to 1910) and Rivista di Antropologia (until 2003).

The JASs publishes original articles, notes and reviews concerning all aspects of evolutionary anthropology (primatology, human paleontology, prehistory, biology and genetics of extinct and extant populations), with particular attention towards interdisciplinary approaches. Each manuscript is subjected to review by specialists.

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