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Project

The First Bantu Speakers South of the Rainforest: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Human Migration, Language Spread, Climate Change and Early Farming in Late Holocene Central Africa

Outputs and Outcomes

Publications

A. F. C. Holl, The mobility imperative : a global evolutionary perspective of human migration

Sound change versus lexical change for subgrouping : word-final lenition of Proto-Bantu *ŋg in West-Coastal Bantu

Sara PacchiarottiGuy KouarataKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in LANGUAGE DYNAMICS AND CHANGE

The Late Pleistocene and Holocene chronocultural and anthracological open-air sequence from Mukila (DRC)

Katharina JungnickelDirk SeidenstickerWannes HubauFlorias MeesEls CornelissenKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Phonetic and phonological research in Mai-Ndombe : a few preliminary notes on rhotics and double-articulations

Lorenzo Maselli

A2 Journal Article in LANGUAGES

The introduction of sugarcane in West-Central Africa : insights from comparative Bantu word histories

Sifra Van AckerSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in NORDIC JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES

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 MundekeIgor Roland Matonda SakalaJoseph Koni MuluwaPeter CoutrosTerry S. NyambeJustin Cirhuza CikomolaVinet CoetzeeMinique de CastroPeter EbbesenJoris DelangheMark StonekingLawrence BarhamMarlize LombardAnja MeyerMaryna SteynHelena MalmströmJorge RochaHimla SoodyallBrigitte PakendorfKoen BostoenCarina M. Schlebusch et al.

A1 Journal Article in NATURE

Grammatical tone in the Tense-Aspect-Mood-Polarity system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu B861, DRC)

Sara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in AFRICANA LINGUISTICA

Labial-velar stops in Sakata (Bantu C34) : preliminary phonetic and phonological observations

Lorenzo MaselliVéronique DelvauxJean-Pierre Donzo Bunza YugiaSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in STUDIES IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS

Nouvelle contribution à l’inventaire et la description des parlers teke (bantou, B70‑80)

Guy KouarataSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in LINGUISTIQUE ET LANGUES AFRICAINES

Bantu expansion

Bookchapter in The encyclopedia of ancient history : Asia and Africa

First archaeological excavations along the Atlantic ocean coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo : the Iron Age sites at Muanda

Bernard ClistPhilippe BéarezCaroline MougneJoséphine LesurWannes HubauKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW

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

Divergence and contact in Southern Bantu language and population history : a new phylogeny in cross-disciplinary perspective

Hilde GunninkNatalia Chousou-PolydouriKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in LANGUAGE DYNAMICS AND CHANGE

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

Bantu language codes

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

An introduction to reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar

Bookchapter in On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar

Doorloper : het Kongo-rijk in de vroegmoderne tijd

Bookchapter in Sapiens 4 D leerboek geschiedenis

On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar

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

Le projet BantuFirst : rapport sur les recherches de terrain archéologiques 2021 dans la province de Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo

Igor Roland Matonda SakalaKoen Bostoen

A4 Journal Article in NYAME AKUMA

Erratic velars in West-Coastal Bantu : explaining irregular sound change in Central Africa

Sara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

The impact of autochthonous languages on Bantu language variation : a comparative view on southern and central Africa

Koen BostoenHilde Gunnink

Bookchapter in The Cambridge handbook of language contact : volume 1 : population movement and language change

A historical-comparative approach to phonological and morphological variation in the Kikongo Language Cluster with a special focus on Cabinda

Heidi GoesKoen BostoenGilles-Maurice de Schryver

Typology and evolution of diminutives in the Kikongo Language Cluster

Heidi GoesKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in AFRICANA LINGUISTICA

Labial-velar stops outside the Macro-Sudan Belt : new evidence from Lwel (West-Coastal Bantu, B862)

Lorenzo MaselliSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in AFRICANA LINGUISTICA

The emergence of interior vowels and heterosyllabic vowel sequences in Ngwi (Bantu B861, DRC)

Sara PacchiarottiLorenzo MaselliKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in PAPERS IN HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY

Final vowel loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (DRC) as a contact-induced change

Sara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE CONTACT

The evolution of the noun class system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861, DRC)

Sara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in LANGUAGE IN AFRICA

Reconstructing West-Coastal Bantu vocabulary as evidence for early banana cultivation in Central Africa

Sifra Van AckerSara PacchiarottiEdmond De LangheKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in STUDIES IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS

The noun class system of Bwala, an undocumented Teke language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z)

Flore BollaertSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in NORDIC JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES

Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion

Dirk SeidenstickerWannes HubauDirk VerschurenCesar Fortes-LimaPierre de MaretCarina M. SchlebuschKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in SCIENCE ADVANCES

The proto-West-Coastal Bantu velar merger

Sara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in AFRICANA LINGUISTICA

The Bantu expansion : some facts and fiction

Bookchapter in Language dispersal, diversification, and contact

Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa

Ke WangSteven GoldsteinMadeleine BleasdaleBernard-Olivier ClistKoen BostoenPaul Bakwa-LufuLaura T. BuckAlison CrowtherAlioune DèmeRoderick J. McIntoshJulio MercaderChristine OgolaRobert C. PowerElizabeth SawchukPeter RobertshawEdwin N. WilmsenMichael PetragliaEmmanuel NdiemaFredrick K. ManthiJohannes KrausePatrick RobertsNicole BoivinStephan Schiffels et al.

A1 Journal Article in SCIENCE ADVANCES

Language and archaeology

Bookchapter in The Oxford handbook of African languages

Le projet BantuFirst : rapport sur les recherches de terrain archéologiques 2019 dans les provinces du Kwilu et de Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo

Igor Roland Matonda SakalaSuzanne Bigohe MugishaKoen Bostoen

A4 Journal Article in NYAME AKUMA

Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu mess : identification, geography and phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 languages

Sara PacchiarottiNatalia Chousou-PolydouriKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in AFRICANA LINGUISTICA

Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-vowel language? Bantu spirantization and vowel merger in the Kikongo language cluster

Koen BostoenHeidi Goes

A2 Journal Article in LINGUISTIQUE ET LANGUES AFRICAINES

Kitala ware : a new early iron age pottery group from the lower Congo region in Central Africa

Bernard-Olivier ClistMandela KaumbaIgor Roland Matonda SakalaKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW

Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu

Heidi GoesKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS

The earliest iron-producing communities in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa : new insights from the Bu, Kindu and Mantsetsi sites

Bernard-Olivier ClistWannes HubauJohn Tshibamba MukendiHans BeeckmanKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA

Joseph Koni MuluwaKoen Bostoen

Bookchapter in The Bantu languages

The BantuFirst project : 2018 fieldwork report from the Kongo Central Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bernard-Olivier ClistSuzanne BigoheClément MambuKoen Bostoen

A4 Journal Article in NYAME AKUMA

The BantuFirst project : 2018 fieldwork report from the Kinshasa, Kwango, Kwilu and Mai-Ndombe Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dirk SeidenstickerKatharina JungnickelClément MambuJeanine YogoleloRoger KidebuaKoen Bostoen

A4 Journal Article in NYAME AKUMA

New Archaeological Research on the Earliest Remains of Sedentary Groups South of the Central-African Rainforest

Dirk SeidenstickerKatharina JungnickelKoen Bostoen

A historical-linguistic approach to the subsistence of the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest : the banana case

Sifra Van AckerSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

Did human activity really trigger the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Central Africa?

Bernard-Olivier ClistKoen BostoenPierre de MaretManfred K.H. EggertAlexa HöhnChristophe Mbida MindzieKatharina NeumannDirk Seidensticker

A1 Journal Article in PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Bantu expansion

Bookchapter in Oxford research encyclopedia of African history

Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence

Koen BostoenJoseph Koni Muluwa

Bookchapter in Language dispersal beyond farming