Indigenous domesticated dogs of southern Africa: an introduction

Dogs were most probably introduced into southern Africa by Bantu-speaking agriculturalists and/or Khoi pastoralists when they migrated into southern Africa around 2,000 years ago. Dog skeletal remains, and more indirect evidence such as acid-etched bone fragments and gnawed bones from scavenged carcasses, indicate the presence of dogs on many Iron Age, and some Stone Age, sites.