Mar 05 2009
The Origins of the Forest-Dwelling African Pygmies
Once distributed throughout tropical Africa, Pygmies now live in pockets of the continent’s rainforest.
Africa is home to a number of dwindling hunter-gatherer populations, most of them living deep in the rainforests that stretch from western Africa’s Atlantic coast to the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Known as “Pygmies” because of their short [...]
