Central African Hunter-Gatherer Music Lexicon Does Not Predate the Bantu Expansion
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Padilla-Iglesias et al. (2024) claim that ten Central African Hunter-Gatherer (CAHG) communities share a history of genetic, cultural, and linguistic evolution, that started many millennia before the first food producers settled in the Congo basin, based on comparative evidence from musical instruments, foraging tools, specialized vocabulary and genome-wide data. We consider the linguistic evidence for this hypothesis unsubstantiated because (1) their historical-linguistic methodology is flawed, and (2) much relevant data were overlooked.
