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Post by imhotep06 on Apr 19, 2011 18:43:51 GMT -5
When examining a lot of the West African Maternal Haplogroups, it appears that they carry the L2 marker. If the Bantu speaking population originated in West Africa (Cameroon/Nigeria) from between 4000-3000 bce, wouldn't they be carrying the L2 marker and not L3 on the east coast? My maternal line is L3e2a1b1 (Mozambique) whose origins (L3e) originated in the Kongo 40, 000 years ago according to 23 And Me.com. If this is true, then one would have to explain what events went down in central and east Africa that would cause all of the original inhabitants to abandon their original languages for Bantu languages and there is no evidence of large scale wars and colonization. What are your thoughts?  |
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Post by imhotep06 on Apr 19, 2011 18:58:18 GMT -5
From Wiki:
L3e'i'k'x
* L3e - West-Central Africa. It is the most common L3 sub-clade in Bantu-speaking populations.[11] L3e is suggested to be associated with a Central African origin and is also the most common L3 subclade amongst African Americans, Afro-Brazilians and Caribbeans.[12]
o L3e1 - Central Africa origin and is found in Algeria, Cameroon, Angola,[13] Mozambique, Sudanese and Kikuyu from Kenya as well as in Yemen.
o L3e5 - Originated in the Chad Basin but found in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, South Tunisia, South Morocco and Egypt.[14]
If L3e started in Central Africa, wouldn't there had to have been a movement to the West and then a back migration to the east?
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Post by chawi on Jan 7, 2012 11:52:20 GMT -5
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