Location

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Location

A satellite image taken by nasa of the kalahari desert

The Kalahari

The Kung are located in isolated areas of Angola, Botswana and Namibia, The kalahari, a semi arid desert region where they live has few trees and consist of mostly of brush, grass covered low hills and flat lands.During the rainy season the rain can vary from five to forty inches. Winters in the Kalahari are cold with tempratures dropping below freezing and in the summer it can rise to a scorching 100F. The kalahari stretches 350,000 square miles across southern Africa. Unlike a true desert during a good rainy season it's huge tracts for grazing can support a large variety of animals.
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Sources: "The !kung of the kalahari desert" Shostak, M. (1981). Nisa: The life and words of a !Kung woman. New York: Random House.

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