Continuing Bantu Migrations

Timeline

1. 1003Corridor from Central to East Africa · East AfricaBantu-speaking farmers and herders continued advancing along the edges of the Congo Basin and the Great Rift Valley toward the East African highlands and the Indian Ocean coast, coming into contact with, mixing with, or replacing existing foraging and hunting populations.
2. c. 1003–1100Northern fringe of Southern Africa · Southern AfricaBantu migrants brought sorghum cultivation, iron smelting, and cattle-plowing techniques into the Zambezi–Limpopo river basins, promoting the expansion of settled agricultural societies on the Zimbabwe Plateau and elsewhere.