Editing Zambia (section)

=== Khoisan and Batwa ===
[[File:NsaluCave.jpg|thumb|left|Ancient (but graffitied) Rock Art in Nsalu Cave, Kasanka National Park in North-Central Zambia]]
Modern Zambia once was inhabited by the Khoisan and [[Twa|Batwa]] peoples until around AD 300, when migrating [[Bantu peoples|Bantu]] began to settle the areas.<ref>{{cite book|last=Holmes|first=Timothy|title=Cultures of the World: Zambia|publisher=Times Books International|year=1998|isbn=978-0-7614-0694-5|location=Tarrytown, New York|pages=19–20}}</ref> It is believed the Khoisan people originated in East Africa and spread southwards around 150,000 years ago. The Twa people were split into two groups: the [[Kafwe Twa]] lived around the [[Kafue Flats]] and the [[Lukanga Twa]] who lived around the [[Lukanga Swamp]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=30 March 2020|title=Twa|url=https://traditionalzambia.home.blog/tribes-of-zambia/pre-bantu-invasion/twa/|access-date=27 October 2020|website=Zambia's Traditional History|language=en|archive-date=7 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107062915/https://traditionalzambia.home.blog/tribes-of-zambia/pre-bantu-invasion/twa/|url-status=live}}</ref> Many examples of ancient rock art in Zambia, like the [[Mwela Rock Paintings]], [[Mumbwa Caves]], and Nachikufu Cave, are attributed to these early hunter-gatherers.<ref name="isygi">{{cite journal | last=Musonda | first=Francis B. | title=Late Pleistocene and Holocene Microlithic Industries from the Lunsemfwa Basin, Zambia | journal=The South African Archaeological Bulletin | publisher=JSTOR | volume=39 | issue=139 | year=1984 | pages=24–36 | issn=0038-1969 | doi=10.2307/3888592 | jstor=3888592 }}</ref> The Khoisan and especially the Twa formed a patron-client relationship with farming Bantu peoples across central and southern Africa but were eventually either displaced by or absorbed into the Bantu groups.