Sandawe

Stanford researchers collected saliva specimens from 95 members of the Hadza and Sandawe tribes of Tanzania and the Khomani Bushmen of southern Africa.

Modern Humans Traced to Southern African Bushmen 2011

And identified Lelesu ware types had been previously recovered in the Sandawe and Lake Eyasi environs of north-central Tanzania. 22

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

For instance, Urewe's earliest dates correlate well with the middle-Mashariki period, when Kaskazi linguistic communities began taking shape in the Lakes region. 43 Although we do not know precisely the linguistic identity of Urewe-ware makers in the Lakes region between 500 BCE and about 1200 CE, in Schoenbrun's view, Urewe ware's distribution with Lakes Bantu-speaking settlements is compelling enough to postulate a correlation. 44 Beyond Urewe ware, Lelesu ware's distribution in north-central Tanzania's Sandawe and Lake Eyasi areas, when coupled with the linguistic evidence for the region, suggests that ancestral Langi speakers, who were the descendants of still-earlier communities living in the Southern Nyanza area c.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008