An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion
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 rai...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1628852025-07-31T17:35:57Z An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion Coutros, Peter R. Doman, Jessamy H. Matonda Sakala, Igor Bostoen, Koen African Archaeology central Africa Congo linguistics DNA genetics thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region 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. 2025-07-16T05:33:49Z 2025-07-16T05:33:49Z 2025-07-15T08:35:02Z 2025 book ONIX_20250715T103235_9781040369203_6 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104209 9781040369203 9781032658124 9781032658148 9781040369227 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/162885 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104209/1/9781040369203.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104209/1/9781040369203.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781032658148 10.4324/9781032658148 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040369203 9781032658124 9781032658148 9781040369227 Routledge 744 Oxford open access |
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| title | An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion |
| title_full | An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion |
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| topic | African Archaeology central Africa Congo linguistics DNA genetics thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region |
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