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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.
Contents
1. Introduction to a new archaeology of the Bantu Expansion; Section I; 2. Mapping the Palaeoenvironmental Context of the Bantu Expansion; 3. Central African Hunter-Gatherers: A History Deeply Rooted in Time and Space; 4. A new Bantu story with more than a few thorny issues; 5. Towards an Oral History of Kwilu-Kasai peoples; 6. Language divergence and convergence and deep-time population history in the Kwilu-Kasai region; 7. The Lifeworld of the Kwilu-Kasai Region's First Bantu speakers: Insights from Lexical Reconstruction; 8. The Early Bantu Expansion into Central Africa: New Data and Insights from Population Genetics; Section II; 9. A New Archaeology of the Kwilu-Kasai River Network: Methods, Sites, and Dates; 10. Survey and Excavations along the Kwilu River; 11. Survey and Excavations along the Kasai River; 12. Survey and Excavations along the Loange River; 13. Survey and Excavations along the Kamtsha River; 14. Survey and Excavations of the Idiofa Region; 15. Excavations at Mashita Mbanza; 16. Excavations at Mukila; 17. Survey from Mbankana to Bandundu; Section III; 18. New Lithic Finds from the Kwilu-Kasai River Region and Kongo Central Province; 19. The Pottery of the Kwilu-Kasai Region; 20. Phytolith analysis in the Kwilu-Kasai region; 21. Soil stable isotope analysis in the Kwilu-Kasai region; 22. Charcoal Analysis in the Kwilu-Kasai and Lower Congo regions; 23. Human remains from the Late Stone Age site of Luani; Section IV; 24. A longue dureé Socio-Environmental History of the Kwilu-Kasai region; 25. Rethinking the Early Bantu Expansion from South of the Congo Rainforest
