Is the Bantu expansion and displacement of the Khoisan people a good model of what happened to the Cro Magnons

Question

When the Mediterranean farmers moved North?

Answer 1

Hard to say.  The surviving populations that have the closest skeletal biometrics to the earliest Europeans are the Finns.  The Saami, who are linguistically related to the Finns and live in Northern Finland (as well as other Nordic countries and Russia) may be analogous to the Khoisan in that they are nonagricultural and living in environmentally marginal territory.  So there could have been displacement from Mediterranean farmers but it seems the Bantu displacement was a lot more violent.  The spread of agriculture in the neolithic and the diffusion of the Indo-european language seems to have been more peaceful, although a rival theory is that the Kurgans of Central Asia diffused Indo-European languages through territorial displacement not related to agriculture.

Answer 2

Thats a foreign question to me.

Answer 3

Yes and no. In both, a language group and agriculture were spread to a vast region inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Mathilda, from what I've read, the farmers of the Mideast only contributed 25% of the genes to the CroMagnon population of Europe. They brought their ideas: farming and Indo-European languages. Fortunately they didn't bring superior weapons to decimate their neolithic neighbors. Their ideas were adopted, but little displacement occurred unlike the Bantu expansion in Africa. The second site below and other readings indicate that the Bantus "absorbed" and totally pushed out the Khoisan people. My question would be why the Bantu were more "successful" than the Mideast farmers Of course the Bantu expansion was much more recent(3000years ago) compared to the Mideast farmers expansion(12,000years ago).