Long baseline
The timeline uses a long baseline to avoid collapse into only colonial-era dates. This preserves indigenous precolonial depth in interpreting later movements.
Section Deep Dive
Chronology notes and timeline framing
The chronology combines deep-time settlement context, 19th-century frontier evidence, and family-linked timelines after 1879.
Frontier pivot period
The mid-19th to late-19th century period (including Qing-era records and the 1879 rupture) is treated as the key pivot for documented lineage dispersal patterns.
After 1879
Post-1879 chronology tracks family re-anchoring into Eastern Cape spaces. This is where settlement continuity, naming continuity, and oral records are used together.
Document trail used for this section
docs/moreinfo/san-in-lesotho.md · docs/newupdates/update1.md · docs/newupdates/qwabi.md