The *Baakaa and Other Puzzles
Foraging and Food-Producing Peoples in the Western Central African Rainforest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3777880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Güldemann (corresponding author), Benedikt Winkhart (0000-0002-4913-7062) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-306 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5483 • E-ISSN: 1944-6527 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anl.2020.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W4285655811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
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
Ancestor · Archaeology · Bantu languages · Biology · Central Highlands · Ethnology · Foraging · Geography · Linguistics · Prehistory · Rainforest · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |