Research Paper on:
Contemporary Bushmen

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the Stone Age by the way the indigenous population was living. Their habits, rituals and cultural traditions were unlike anything the Puritans had experienced, leading them to realize the  absolute divergent lifestyles that existed at the time. The extent to which the Bushmens artistic and literary talents reflect an unsurpassed brilliancy lends to the long lasting they have  made upon future anthropological progression. Bibliography lists 6 sources. TLCbshmn.rtf THE BUSHMEN OF TODAY: MYTHS AND SHAPING FUTURE ANTHROPOLOGY by (c)  December 2001 paper properly! When one considers the contributions of various populations to the overall network of anthropological information, it  is with great curiosity that one looks upon the South African Bushmen. European settlers came upon the Bushmen and must have thought they had walked directly back to the  Stone Age by the way the indigenous population was living. Their habits, rituals and cultural traditions were unlike anything the Puritans had experienced, leading them to believe they had  no redeeming value as human beings. "European colonists who waded upon the shores of southern Africa 350 years ago called them simply Bushmen. Deeming them "untamable" and a threat  to livestock, settlers treated the Bushmen as vermin, killing them in great numbers" (Godwin 90). The extent to which the Bushmens artistic and literary talents reflect an unsurpassed brilliancy  lends to the long lasting they have made upon future anthropological progression. While the European settlers considered it "primitive and crude, like the people who made it" (Lewis-Williams 118),  it served to reflect a population of people whose connection with nature and the environment would propel them far into the subsequent centuries. Primary to the Bushmens existence has been