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Peter Coutros

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48 Results

2025

A longue durée socio-environmental history of the Kwilu-Kasai region

Peter CoutrosJessamy DomanIgor Roland Matonda SakalaKoen Bostoen

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

A new archaeology of the Kwilu-Kasai region : methods, sites, and dates

Peter CoutrosIgor Roland Matonda Sakala

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Charcoal analysis in the Kwilu-Kasai and Lower Congo regions

Wannes HubauBlanca Van Houtte AlonsoJohn Tshibamba MukendiHans Beeckman

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Excavations at Mukila

Katharina JungnickelDirk SeidenstickerJeanine Amusubi YogoleloClément Mambu Nsangathi

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Human remains from the Late Stone Age site of Luani

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Introduction to a new archaeology of the Bantu expansion

Koen BostoenPeter Coutros

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Language divergence and convergence and deep-time population history in the Kwilu-Kasai region

Koen BostoenSara PacchiarottiGuy Kouarata

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Niger-Congo archaeolinguistics, including Bantu

Koen BostoenPeter CoutrosCarina Schlebusch

Bookchapter in The Oxford handbook of archaeology and language

Phytolith analysis in the Kwilu-Kasai region

Jessamy DomanKoen Deforce

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Rethinking the Bantu expansion from south of the Congo rainforest

Koen BostoenPeter CoutrosJessamy DomanIgor Roland Matonda Sakala

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Soil stable isotope analysis in the Kwilu-Kasai region

Jessamy DomanSamuel Bodé

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Survey and excavations along the Kamtsha River

Peter CoutrosIgor Roland Matonda SakalaIsidore Nkanu TsatsaArnaud Mabuaka Duki

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Survey and excavations along the Kasai River

Igor Roland Matonda SakalaPeter CoutrosIsidore Nkanu TsatsaArnaud Mabuaka Duki

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Survey and excavations along the Kwilu River

Peter CoutrosIgor Roland Matonda SakalaIsidore Nkanu TsatsaArnaud Mabuaka Duki

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Survey and excavations along the Loange River

Igor Roland Matonda SakalaPeter CoutrosIsidore Nkanu TsatsaArnaud Mabuaka Duki

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Survey and excavations at Mashita Mbanza

Peter CoutrosIgor Roland Matonda SakalaIsidore Nkanu TsatsaArnaud Mabuaka Duki

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Survey and excavations in the Idiofa region

Peter CoutrosIgor Roland Matonda SakalaIsidore Nkanu Tsatsa

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Survey from Mbankana to Bandundu

Dirk SeidenstickerKatharina JungnickelRoger Kidebua

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

The coevolution of languages, peoples and environments in Central Africa’s Kwilu-Kasai region since ∼1000 BCE : a dialogue with Jan Vansina

Koen BostoenPeter CoutrosJessamy DomanCesar Fortes-LimaSara PacchiarottiCarina Schlebusch

A2 Journal Article in QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTS AND HUMANS

The Early Bantu expansion into Central Africa : new data and insights from population genetics

Cesar A. Fortes-LimaSara PacchiarottiLorenzo MaselliJean-Pierre Donzo Bunza YugiaGuy KouarataJoseph Koni MuluwaLéon MundekeKoen BostoenCarina Schlebusch

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

The lifeworld of the Kwilu-Kasai region’s first Bantu speakers : insights from lexical reconstruction

Koen BostoenJessamy DomanSara PacchiarottiSifra Van Acker

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

The pottery of the Kwilu-Kasai region

Peter CoutrosIgor Roland Matonda Sakala

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

Towards an Oral History of Kwilu-Kasai Peoples

Isidore Ndaywel è NziemIgor Roland Matonda Sakala

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

2024

Along the Middle Senegal Valley and beyond : the first millennium BC at Diallowali, Senegal

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY

The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest : the first archaeological investigations around Idiofa (Congo), c. 146 BC - AD 1648

Peter CoutrosIgor Roland Matonda SakalaJessamy DomanSara PacchiarottiIsis MesfinKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA

The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Cesar A. Fortes-LimaConcetta BurgarellaRickard HammarénAnders ErikssonMário VicenteCecile JollyArmando SemoHilde GunninkSara PacchiarottiLeon Mundeke et al.

A1 Journal Article in NATURE

2023

Socio-environmental implications of shifting subsistence practices at Diallowali, a Late Stone Age site system in the Middle Senegal Valley

Jessamy DomanPeter Coutros

A1 Journal Article in ANTHROPOLOGIE

The BantuFirst project : 2022 fieldwork report on the Kwilu-Kasai River reconnaissance and Mashita Mbanza excavations (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Peter CoutrosIgor Roland Matonda SakalaArnold Mabuaka DukiIsidore Nkanu TsatsaKoen Bostoen

A4 Journal Article in NYAME AKUMA

The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Cesar A. Fortes-LimaConcetta BurgarellaRickard HammarénAnders ErikssonMário VicenteCecile JollyArmando SemoHilde GunninkSara PacchiarottiLeon Mundeke et al.

The Tichitt culture and the Malian Lakes region

Vernet RobertNikolas GestrichPeter Coutros

A1 Journal Article in AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW

2022

The BantuFirst project : 2021 Fieldwork report on the Kwilu-Kasaï-Kamtsha-Loange River reconnaissance mission

Peter CoutrosIgor Roland Matonda SakalaArnold Mabuaka DukiIsidore Nkanu TsatsaKoen Bostoen

A4 Journal Article in NYAME AKUMA

2019

A fluid past : socio‐hydrological systems of the West African Sahel across the long durée

A1 Journal Article in WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-WATER

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

Lucas StephensDorian FullerNicole BoivinTorben RickNicolas GauthierAndrea KayBen MarwickChelsey Geralda ArmstrongC. Michael BartonTim Denham et al.

A1 Journal Article in SCIENCE

Caravans of gold, fragments in time : art, culture, and exchange across medieval Saharan Africa

2018

How volcanoes destroy and nurture societies

Article in a magazine

The tale the river tells : floodplains, climate change and archaeology in West Africa

Bookchapter in Water and society from ancient times to the present : resilience, decline and revival

When did horses transform Mongolians’ way of life?

Article in a magazine

2017

Digging into the myth of Timbuktu

Article in a magazine

Initial results from magnetometer survey at Dakajalan, Mali

Peter CoutrosAndrew WomackMamadou Cissé

A4 Journal Article in NYAME AKUMA

People and palaeoclimate : perspectives from the Diallowali site system

Peter CoutrosRoderick McIntosh

The Malian Lakes Region redefined : archaeological survey of the Gorbi Valley

A1 Journal Article in ANTIQUITY

2016

The Diallowali site complex : a Late Stone Age occupation along the Middle Senegal Valley

A4 Journal Article in NYAME AKUMA

2015

Coring Lake Fati and settlement archaeology of the Middle Niger Lakes Region

Peter CoutrosPeter M. J. Douglas

A1 Journal Article in AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW