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

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

Autori: Kouarata, Guy; Pacchiarotti, Sara; Bostoen, Koen
Pubblicato in: Linguistique et langues africaines, Numero 9 (2), 2023, ISSN 2822-7468
Editore: OpenEdition Journals
DOI: 10.4000/lla.12921

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

Autori: Dirk Seidensticker, Wannes Hubau, Dirk Verschuren, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Pierre de Maret, Carina M. Schlebusch and Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Science Advances, Numero 7 (7), 2021, ISSN 2375-2548
Editore: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd8352

Final Vowel Loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (drc) as a Contact-Induced Change

Autori: Pacchiarotti, Sara; Bostoen, Koen
Pubblicato in: Journal of Language Contact, Numero 14 (2), 2021, Pagina/e 438-476, ISSN 1877-4091
Editore: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020007

The proto-West-Coastal Bantu velar merger

Autori: Pacchiarotti, Sara; Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Africana Linguistica, Numero 26, 2020, Pagina/e 139-195, ISSN 2033-8732
Editore: Peeters
DOI: 10.2143/al.26.0.3289089

Typology and evolution of diminutives in the Kikongo Language Cluster

Autori: Goes, Heidi; Bostoen, Koen
Pubblicato in: Africana Linguistica, Numero 27, 2021, Pagina/e 59-102, ISSN 2033-8732
Editore: Peeters
DOI: 10.2143/al.27.0.3290072

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

Autori: Peter R. Coutros; Igor Matonda Sakala; Jessamy H. Doman; Sara Pacchiarotti; Isis Mesfin; Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 2024, Pagina/e 1-36, ISSN 0067-270X
Editore: Routledge

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

Autori: Lorenzo Maselli, Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Africana Linguistica, Numero 27, 2021, Pagina/e 141-164, ISSN 2033-8732
Editore: Peeters
DOI: 10.2143/al.27.0.3290074

Inheritance and contact in the genesis of Gisamba (Bantu, L12a, DRC) : a diachronic phonological approach

Autori: Sifra Van Acker; Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Linguistique et langues africaines, Numero 6, 2020, Pagina/e 73–129, ISSN 2429-2230
Editore: CNRS-LLACAN
DOI: 10.4000/lla.299

First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda

Autori: Bernard Clist; Philippe Béarez; Caroline Mougne; Joséphine Lesur; Wannes Hubau; Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: African Archaeological Review, Numero 40 (4), 2023, Pagina/e 711-739, ISSN 0263-0338
Editore: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1007/s10437-023-09535-8

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

Autori: Sifra Van Acker; Sara Pacchiarotti; Edmond De Langhe; Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Studies in African Linguistics, Numero 50 (2), 2021, Pagina/e 285-325, ISSN 0039-3533
Editore: Dept. of Linguistics and the African Studies Center, University of California
DOI: 10.32473/sal.v50i2.122286

The Noun Class System of Bwala, an Undocumented Teke Language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z)

Autori: Bollaert, Flore; Pacchiarotti, Sara; Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Nordic Journal of African Studies, Numero 30 (1), 2021, Pagina/e 1-40, ISSN 1459-9465
Editore: University of Helsinki
DOI: 10.53228/njas.v30i1.755

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

Autori: Sara Pacchiarotti; Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Language in Africa, Numero 2 (3), 2021, Pagina/e 11-67, ISSN 2686-8946
Editore: Institute of Linguistics Russian Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.37892/2686-8946-2021-2-3-11-67

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

Autori: Bernard Clist, Wannes Hubau, John Mukendi Tshibamba, Hans Beeckman, Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Numero 54/2, 2019, Pagina/e 221-244, ISSN 0067-270X
Editore: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2019.1619282

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

Autori: Ke Wang, Steven Goldstein, Madeleine Bleasdale, Bernard Clist, Koen Bostoen, Paul Bakwa-Lufu, Laura T. Buck, Alison Crowther, Alioune Dème, Roderick J. McIntosh, Julio Mercader, Christine Ogola, Robert C. Power, Elizabeth Sawchuk, Peter Robertshaw, Edwin N. Wilmsen, Michael Petraglia, Emmanuel Ndiema, Fredrick K. Manthi, Johannes Krause, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, Stephan Schiffels
Pubblicato in: Science Advances, Numero 6/24, 2020, Pagina/e eaaz0183, ISSN 2375-2548
Editore: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0183

Kitala Ware: A New Early Iron Age Pottery Group from the Lower Congo Region in Central Africa

Autori: Bernard Clist, Mandela Kaumba, Igor Matonda, Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: African Archaeological Review, Numero 36/4, 2019, Pagina/e 455-477, ISSN 0263-0338
Editore: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1007/s10437-019-09356-8

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

Autori: Sara Pacchiarotti, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Africana Linguistica, Numero 25, 2019, Pagina/e 155-229, ISSN 2033-8732
Editore: Peeters
DOI: 10.2143/al.25.0.3287234

Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-Vowel Language? Bantu Spirantization and Vowel Merger in the Kikongo Language Cluster

Autori: Koen Bostoen and Heidi Goes
Pubblicato in: Linguistique et Langues Africaines, Numero 5, 2019, Pagina/e 25-68, ISSN 2429-2230
Editore: Éditions Lambert-Lucas

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

Autori: Heidi Goes, Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, Numero 40/1, 2019, Pagina/e 23-73, ISSN 0167-6164
Editore: Foris Publications
DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0003

Divergence and contact in Southern Bantu language and population history

Autori: Gunnink, Hilde; Chousou-Polydouri, Natalia; Bostoen, Koen
Pubblicato in: Language Dynamics and Change, Numero 13 (1), 2023, Pagina/e 74-131, ISSN 2210-5832
Editore: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/22105832-bja10022

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

Autori: Pacchiarotti, Sara; Bostoen, Koen
Pubblicato in: Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2022, ISSN 2210-2116
Editore: John Benjamins
DOI: 10.1075/jhl.20054.bos

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

Autori: Pacchiarotti, Sara; Maselli, Lorenzo; Bostoen, Koen
Pubblicato in: Papers in Historical Phonology, Numero 6, 2021, Pagina/e 107–146, ISSN 2399-6714
Editore: Edinburgh Diamond
DOI: 10.2218/pihph.6.2021.6693

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

Autori: Cesar A. Fortes-Lima; Concetta Burgarella; Rickard Hammarén; Anders Eriksson; Mário Vicente; Cecile Jolly; Armando Semo; Hilde Gunnink; Sara Pacchiarotti; Leon Mundeke; Igor Matonda; Joseph Koni Muluwa; Peter Coutros; Terry S. Nyambe; Justin Cirhuza Cikomola; Vinet Coetzee; Minique de Castro; Peter Ebbesen; Joris Delanghe; Mark Stoneking; Lawrence Barham; Marlize Lombard; Anja Meyer; Maryna Stey
Pubblicato in: NATURE, Numero 625, 2024, Pagina/e 540-547, ISSN 0028-0836
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.03.535432

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

Autori: Pacchiarotti, Sara; Bostoen, Koen
Pubblicato in: Africana Linguistica, Numero 30, 2024, ISSN 0065-4124
Editore: Royal Museum for Central Africa

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

Autori: Peter Coutros, Igor Matonda Sakala, Arnold Mabuaka Duki, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa and Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Nyame Akuma, Numero 97, 2022, Pagina/e 14-21, ISSN 0713-5815
Editore: Society of Africanist Archaeologists

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

Autori: Peter Coutros; Igor Matonda Sakala; Arnold Mabuaka Duki; Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa; Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Nyame Akuma, Numero 99, 2023, Pagina/e 29-34, ISSN 0713-5815
Editore: Society of Africanist Archaeologists

Le projet BantuFirst : rapport sur les recherches de terrain archéologiques le long du bas Kasaï dans les provinces du Kwilu et du Mai-Ndombe (RDC)

Autori: Igor Matonda Sakala, Suzanne Bigohe Mugisha, Clément Mambu and Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Nyame Akuma, Numero 95, 2021, Pagina/e 25-30, ISSN 0713-5815
Editore: Society of Africanist Archaeologists

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

Autori: Bernard Clist, Koen Bostoen, Pierre de Maret, Manfred K. H. Eggert, Alexa Höhn, Christophe Mbida Mindzié, Katharina Neumann, Dirk Seidensticker
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Numero 115/21, 2018, Pagina/e E4733-E4734, ISSN 0027-8424
Editore: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1805247115

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

Autori: Dirk Seidensticker, Katharina Jungnickel, Clément Mambu, Jeanine Yogolelo, Roger Kidebua and Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Nyame Akuma, Numero 90, 2018, Pagina/e 23-29, ISSN 0713-5815
Editore: Society of Africanist Archaeologists

The BantuFirst Project: 2018 Fieldwork Report from the Kongo Central Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Autori: Bernard Clist, Suzanne Bigohe, Clément Mambu and Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Nyame Akuma, Numero 90, 2018, Pagina/e 14-22, ISSN 0713-5815
Editore: Society of Africanist Archaeologists

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

Autori: Igor Matonda Sakala, Suzanne Bigohe Mugisha and Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Nyame Akuma, Numero 92, 2019, Pagina/e 19-24, ISSN 0713-5815
Editore: Society of Africanist Archaeologists

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

Autori: Igor Matonda Sakala and Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Nyame Akuma, Numero 97, 2022, Pagina/e 22-27, ISSN 0713-5815
Editore: Society of Africanist Archaeologists

Archeologen zoeken in Congo naar de wieg van het Kongo en haar zustertalen

Autori: Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Stemmen van Afrika, 2022
Editore: Radboud Universiteit

The Bantu expansion : some facts and fiction

Autori: Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact, edited by Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken,, 2020, Pagina/e 227 - 239, ISBN 9780198723813
Editore: Oxford University Press

Bantu Expansion

Autori: Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, 2023, Pagina/e 1-7, ISBN 9781119399919
Editore: Wiley Blackwell
DOI: 10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00611

An introduction to Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar

Autori: Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: On Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar, 2022, Pagina/e v–xlviii
Editore: Language Science Press
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7575813

Nsong B85d

Autori: Joseph Koni Muluwa, Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: The Bantu Languages, 2019, Pagina/e 414-448, ISBN 9781315755946
Editore: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781315755946-14

The Bantu Expansion

Autori: Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 2018
Editore: Oxford University Press

Chapter 10. Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? - A first assessment of the linguistic evidence

Autori: Koen Bostoen, Joseph Koni Muluwa
Pubblicato in: Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, 2017, Pagina/e 235-258, ISBN 9789027212559
Editore: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/z.215.10bos

Language and archaeology

Autori: Koen Bostoen
Pubblicato in: The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, edited by Rainer Vossen and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, 2020, Pagina/e 972–982, ISBN 9780199609895
Editore: Oxford University Press

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

Autori: Koen Bostoen and Hilde Gunnink
Pubblicato in: The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact : Volume 1 : Population Movement and Language Change, edited by Salikoko Mufwene and Anna Maria Escobar, 2022, Pagina/e 152-186, ISBN 9781009098649
Editore: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781316796146.009

On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar

Autori: Koen Bostoen; Gilles-Maurice de Schryver; Guérois, Rozenn; Sara Pacchiarotti
Pubblicato in: 2022, ISBN 978-3-98554-064-8
Editore: Language Science Press
DOI: 10.17169/refubium-40874

A historical-comparative study of noun class systems in the Kasai-Ngounie (Extended) languages (Bantu B50-70, B81-84)

Autori: Flore Bollaert
Pubblicato in: 2019
Editore: Ghent

The History of Ovicaprines in Central Africa: Historical-Linguistic Insights from West-Coastal Bantu

Autori: Febe Wylin
Pubblicato in: 2021
Editore: Ghent University

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