San people

And then certainly in the Northern Cape, of course, you've got the Greek element.

It's more the Malay than the Bushmen.

But both of those elements came into it and you would get the sandy skinned, well, half breeds is what they used to be called.

It sounds very derogatory now.

The problem that we have is that humans are not adapted to the environment in which they're currently living.

If we look at any of the traditional societies, from Kalahari Bushmen to Mongolian yak herders to Indian Naga Hill tribesmen in the Himalayas, all of them have cholesterol levels that are about Four in total, with an LDL, the damaging fraction, somewhere around one.

To compare that to what we have in southern England, the total is around six, and the damaging fraction is about four.

So there has been a huge transition that's occurred probably in the last certainly century in the West, possibly longer, that's actually driven this rise and the consequences that have come from it.

It's just another story.

So if you look at cultures like the Kalahari Bushmen, if you've seen the film, The Gods Must Be Crazy, they call themselves the keepers of the shake.

They deliberately use it.

You've got the ancient samurai warriors, you know, famous for their superhuman ability and their ability to go from a lethal warrior to a chilled out Zen master.

Giraffes have stirred the imagination of man since the earliest of times.

Painted on rocks by the Bushmen, immortalized on tomb walls by the Egyptians, and given as gifts by Arab rulers to kings and emperors in Europe, India, and China, giraffes have long been revered for their gentleness, gracefulness, and beauty.

Giraffes were known to ancient Egyptians and were commonly depicted in their wall paintings and sculpted in their artifacts.

The giraffe was appreciated as an astonishing creature, and a band of giraffe skin was reputed to have magical powers.

Giraffe tails were given as tributes to Tutankhamen in the 14th century B.C.

The Bushmen of Botswana and Namibia frequently painted giraffes in their rock art.

In 1991, I trekked with a Gerba overland group to see the Sedillo Hills, located in the Kalahari Desert and northwestern Botswana near the Namibian border.

This World Heritage Site has been called the Louvre of the Desert as its massive quartzite rock formations contain over 4,500 rock paintings dating back at least 100,000 years.

Some animals it's very natural for, and some it's not, I think.

Very interesting sidetrack reference to Lawrence Vanderpost and his experience with the Bushmen, whose understanding of knowledge of animals is just blows the mind.

And it talks about some of the different predispositions of the different animals, why some are easy to hunt and some are very difficult to hunt,

for example.

This one is the Silaswane cave painting.

More than 6,000 years ago, the Bushmen people who gathered fruits and hunted animals barefooted lived in groups of about 40 or more, and they left records and information enough which depicted their lifestyle.

The tallest is one meter.

They were eventually named nomadic hunters because of the system which was adapted to their kind of hunting.

And people were saying, hey, this is going to be a wet season.

And he said, how do you know it's a wet season? And people are looking at each other like the traditional Bushmen.

And so they're kind of laughing.

It's like, how do you not know that? Because Ernst was thinking about all of our systems and radars and groundbreaking information technology to try to foretell and models to see if a certain year is going to be drier.