On June 17, 2021, at 3.30 pm, Koen Bostoen presents a talk titled “Retrieving lost paths in the rainforest after population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE” at the online ASCL Seminar in Leiden.
Category: Archaeology
Daily Science covers BantuFirst research on population collapse
Daily Science, the science magazine of the Belgian federal government, covers our research on the population collapse in the Congo rainforest with an article titled “Une étude archéologique relance le débat sur l’Histoire des langues africaines“.
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Koen Bostoen presents BantuFirst research for Kalahari Basin Area network
On April 22, 2021, Koen Bostoen presented the talk titled “Spread-over-spread events in Bantu language history: New cross-disciplinary insights from Central Africa” for the Kalahari Basin Area network.
Africa Report picks up BantuFirst research on population collapse in Congo rainforest
Referring to BantuFirst research, the Africa Report headlines that “New research pokes holes in idea of ‘Bantu expansion’ in West Africa“.
BantuFirst research on Congo rainforest in Jeune Afrique
In the April 2021 issue of the French monthly Jeune Afrique an article on Bantu history titled “Pandémie chez les Bantous” was published. It is based on the recently published BantuFirst research on a population collapse in the Congo rainforest from 400CE.
BantuFirst research on Congo rainforest in Knack
The recently published BantuFirst research on a population collapse in the Congo rainforest from 400CE is mentioned in the March 31, 2021 issue of the Flemish weekly Knack.
Peter Coutros joins the BantuFirst team
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On March 15, 2021, Peter Coutros has joined the BantuFirst team as a post-doctoral researcher in African archaeology. His research will focus on the archaeology of the first Bantu-speaking settlements in the vicinity of the West-Coastal Bantu homeland area situated between the Kamtsha and Kasai Rivers in the Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
Talk Koen Bostoen for the DiaLing research group
On March 5, at 3 pm, Koen Bostoen presents at talk titled “Epidemic-driven population collapse in Congolese rainforest 1600-1400 years ago urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion” for the DiaLing research group.
BantuFirst research on online “Extracting the Past from the Present” conference
The BantuFirst project team presented three talks during the online conference “Extracting the Past from the Present”, an international and interdisciplinary conference on African precolonial history organized by the ERC-SG BantuRivers project at ULB:
- “How to Retrieve Lost Paths in the Rainforest?” by Koen Bostoen, Wannes Hubau, Sara Pacchiarotti and Dirk Seidensticker
- “New Genetic Light on Old Linguistic Questions from the West-Coastal Bantu Homeland” by Cesar Fortes-Lima, Carina Schlebusch, Leon Mundeke, Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen
- “Weeding the Bantu Banana Plot: Lexical Reconstruction and Ancient Musa History in Africa” by Sifra Van Acker, Sara Pacchiarotti, Edmond De Langhe & Koen Bostoen
New BantuFirst research picked up by National Geographic Spain
Our new research on the population collapse in the Congo rainforest published in Science Advances gets picked up by National Geographic Spain.