As southern Africa's earliest inhabitants, the San tribe are also the most direct descendants of the late Stone Age. They have hunted and gathered on the subcontinent for ages — paintings in Namibia by their ancestors date back 25,000 years. ........ . However, in the last 2,000 years, the southward migration of Bantuspeaking farmers has forced change upon the San, even though the two groups have managed to live peacefully side-by-side. The pace of change has been even more rapid in the 400 years since the invasion of the Europeans.