| Other author/creator | Coutros, Peter R. http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2025019159. |
| Other author/creator | Sakala, Igor Matonda http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2025019161. |
| Other author/creator | Doman, Jessamy http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2025019164. |
| Other author/creator | Bostoen, Koen A. G. http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2005078730. |
| Contents |
Introduction to a new archaeology of the Bantu expansion / Koen Bostoen & Peter R. Coutros -- Mapping the palaeoenvironmental context of the Bantu expansion / Christopher Albert Kiahtipes -- Central African hunter-gatherers : a history deeply rooted in time and space / Isis Mesfin -- A new Bantu story with more than a few thorny issues / Pierre de Maret -- Towards an oral history of Kwilu-Kasai peoples / Isidore Ndaywel ©· Nziem & Igor Matonda Sakala -- Language divergence and convergence and deep-time population history in the Kwilu-Kasai region / Koen Bostoen, Sara Pacchiarotti & Guy Kouarata -- The lifeworld of the Kwilu-Kasai region's first Bantu speakers : insights from lexical reconstruction / Koen Bostoen, Jessamy Doman, Sara Pacchiarotti & Sifra Van Acker -- The early Bantu expansion into Central Africa : new data and insights from population genetics / Cesar Fortes-Lima,Sara Pacchiarotti, Lorenzo Maselli, Jean-Pierre Donzo Bunza Yugia, Guy Kouarata, Joseph Koni Muluwa, Leon Mundeke, Koen Bostoen & Carina Schlebusch -- A new archaeology of the Kwilu-Kasai river network : methods, sites, and dates / Peter R. Coutros & Igor Matonda Sakala -- Survey and excavations along the Kwilu River / Peter R. Coutros, Igor Matonda, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa & Arnaud Mabuaka Duki -- Survey and excavations along the Kasai River / Igor Matonda, Peter R. Coutros, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa & Arnaud Mabuaka Duki -- Survey and excavations along the Loange River /Igor Matonda, Peter R. Coutros, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa & Arnaud Mabuaka Duki -- Survey and excavations along the Kamtsha River / Peter R. Coutros, Igor Matonda, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa & Arnaud Mabuaka Duki -- Survey and excavations of the Idiofa Region / Peter R. Coutros, Igor Matonda, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa & Arnaud Mabuaka Duki -- Excavations at Mashita Mbanza / Peter R. Coutros, Igor Matonda, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa & Arnaud Mabuaka Duki -- Excavations at Mukila / Katharina V.M. Jungnickel, Dirk Seidensticker, Jeanine Yogolelo & Clement Mambu Nsangathi -- Survey from Mbankana to Bandundu / Dirk Seidensticker, Katharina V.M. Jungnickel & Roger Kidebua -- New lithic finds from the Kwilu-Kasai River Region and Kongo Central Province / Els Cornelissen, Isis Mesfin & Marie-Jos©♭e Angue-Zogo -- The pottery of the Kwilu-Kasai Region / Peter R. Coutros & Igor Matonda Sakala -- Phytolith analysis in the Kwilu-Kasai region / Jessamy Doman & Koen Deforce -- Soil stable isotope analysis in the Kwilu-Kasai region / Jessamy Doman & Samuel Bod©♭ -- Charcoal analysis in the Kwilu-Kasai and Lower Congo regions / Wannes Hubau and Blanca Van Houtte Alonso -- Human remains from the late Stone Age site of Luani / Jessamy Doman -- A longue dure©♭ socio-environmental history of the Kwilu-Kasai region / Peter R. Coutros, Jessamy H. Doman, Igor Matonda Sakala & Koen Bostoen -- Rethinking the early Bantu expansion from south of the Congo rainforest / Koen Bostoen, Peter R. Coutros, Jessamy H. Doman & Igor Matonda Sakala -- Appendices -- Site gazetteer -- Radiometric dates -- Body sherd catalogue -- Rim sherd catalogue -- Mukila lithics catalogue -- Phytolith counts -- The lifeworld of ancestral west-coastal Bantu speakers. |
| Abstract |
"The Bantu Expansion is one of the most intriguing issues in African history. Based on extensive fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and laboratory analysis, this book provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and multi-proxy account of the first Bantu speakers south of the Congo rainforest. This volume begins with state-of-the-art reviews of the archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, genetic, linguistic, and oral historical contexts of the Bantu Expansion and includes evidence from over 150 previously unknown archaeological sites with extensive analyses of pottery, lithics soil stable isotopes, phytoliths, charcoal, and human remains. Seven appendices contain the full metadata, radiometric, and geographical data for each site and comparative language data. The volume concludes with a sweeping interdisciplinary reconstruction of the first Bantu-speaking settlers in the Kwilu-Kasai region and rethinks how farming, climate change and contact with Central African hunter-gatherers and Ubangi speakers impacted their lifeworld. This book is indispensable for scholars and students of Africa from a wide variety of fields such as archaeology, palaeoecology, linguistics, population genetics, history, and anthropology, and of considerable interest to scientists active in other parts of the world. All who think African history matters will find it a valuable source"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025008318 |
| ISBN | 9781032658124 hardback |
| ISBN | 9781032658131 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
