Photo of the Day 424

Dancing Bushmen, Namibia, 2001

Photograph by Chris Johns

Southern Africa's San Bushmen, like these youth dancing at Namibia's Nyae Nyae Conservancy, are among the most intensively studied aboriginal people on Earth. Interest in this culture is stoked by the idea that the Bushmen are one of our last connections with a hunter-gatherer existence, a way of life that was a human universal until some 10,000 years ago.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Bushmen: Last Stand for Southern Africa's First People," February 2001, National Geographic magazine)