Publications Peer reviewed articles (17) Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion Author(s): Dirk Seidensticker, Wannes Hubau, Dirk Verschuren, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Pierre de Maret, Carina M. Schlebusch and Koen Bostoen Published in: Science Advances, Issue 7 (7), 2021, ISSN 2375-2548 Publisher: 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 Author(s): Pacchiarotti, Sara; Bostoen, Koen Published in: Journal of Language Contact, Issue 14 (2), 2021, Page(s) 438-476, ISSN 1877-4091 Publisher: Brill DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020007 The proto-West-Coastal Bantu velar merger Author(s): Pacchiarotti, Sara; Koen Bostoen Published in: Africana Linguistica, Issue 26, 2020, Page(s) 139-195, ISSN 2033-8732 Publisher: Peeters DOI: 10.2143/al.26.0.3289089 Typology and evolution of diminutives in the Kikongo Language Cluster Author(s): Goes, Heidi; Bostoen, Koen Published in: Africana Linguistica, Issue 27, 2021, Page(s) 59-102, ISSN 2033-8732 Publisher: Peeters DOI: 10.2143/al.27.0.3290072 Labial-velar stops outside the Macro-Sudan Belt : new evidence from Lwel (West-Coastal Bantu, B862) Author(s): Lorenzo Maselli, Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen Published in: Africana Linguistica, Issue 27, 2021, Page(s) 141-164, ISSN 2033-8732 Publisher: Peeters DOI: 10.2143/al.27.0.3290074 Inheritance and contact in the genesis of Gisamba (Bantu, L12a, DRC) : a diachronic phonological approach Author(s): Sifra Van Acker; Koen Bostoen Published in: Linguistique et langues africaines, Issue 6, 2020, Page(s) 73–129, ISSN 2429-2230 Publisher: CNRS-LLACAN DOI: 10.4000/lla.299 Reconstructing West-Coastal Bantu vocabulary as evidence for early banana cultivation in Central Africa Author(s): Sifra Van Acker; Sara Pacchiarotti; Edmond De Langhe; Koen Bostoen Published in: Studies in African Linguistics, Issue 50 (2), 2021, Page(s) 285-325, ISSN 0039-3533 Publisher: 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) Author(s): Bollaert, Flore; Pacchiarotti, Sara; Koen Bostoen Published in: Nordic Journal of African Studies, Issue 30 (1), 2021, Page(s) 1-40, ISSN 1459-9465 Publisher: University of Helsinki DOI: 10.53228/njas.v30i1.755 The evolution of the noun class system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861, DRC) Author(s): Sara Pacchiarotti; Koen Bostoen Published in: Language in Africa, Issue 2 (3), 2021, Page(s) 11-67, ISSN 2686-8946 Publisher: 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 Author(s): Bernard Clist, Wannes Hubau, John Mukendi Tshibamba, Hans Beeckman, Koen Bostoen Published in: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Issue 54/2, 2019, Page(s) 221-244, ISSN 0067-270X Publisher: Routledge DOI: 10.1080/0067270x.2019.1619282 Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa Author(s): 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 Published in: Science Advances, Issue 6/24, 2020, Page(s) eaaz0183, ISSN 2375-2548 Publisher: 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 Author(s): Bernard Clist, Mandela Kaumba, Igor Matonda, Koen Bostoen Published in: African Archaeological Review, Issue 36/4, 2019, Page(s) 455-477, ISSN 0263-0338 Publisher: 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 Author(s): Sara Pacchiarotti, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and Koen Bostoen Published in: Africana Linguistica, Issue 25, 2019, Page(s) 155-229, ISSN 2033-8732 Publisher: 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 Author(s): Koen Bostoen and Heidi Goes Published in: Linguistique et Langues Africaines, Issue 5, 2019, Page(s) 25-68, ISSN 2429-2230 Publisher: Éditions Lambert-Lucas Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu Author(s): Heidi Goes, Koen Bostoen Published in: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, Issue 40/1, 2019, Page(s) 23-73, ISSN 0167-6164 Publisher: Foris Publications DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0003 Erratic velars in West-Coastal Bantu: Explaining irregular sound change in Central Africa Author(s): Pacchiarotti, Sara; Bostoen, Koen Published in: Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2022, ISSN 2210-2116 Publisher: John Benjamins DOI: 10.1075/jhl.20054.bos The emergence of interior vowels and heterosyllabic vowel sequences in Ngwi (Bantu B861, DRC) Author(s): Pacchiarotti, Sara; Maselli, Lorenzo; Bostoen, Koen Published in: Papers in Historical Phonology, Issue 6, 2021, Page(s) 107–146, ISSN 2399-6714 Publisher: Edinburgh Diamond DOI: 10.2218/pihph.6.2021.6693 Non-peer reviewed articles (7) The BantuFirst project: 2021 Fieldwork report on the Kwilu-Kasaï-Kamtsha-Loange River reconnaissance mission Author(s): Peter Coutros, Igor Matonda Sakala, Arnold Mabuaka Duki, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa and Koen Bostoen Published in: Nyame Akuma, Issue 97, 2022, Page(s) 14-21, ISSN 0713-5815 Publisher: 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) Author(s): Igor Matonda Sakala, Suzanne Bigohe Mugisha, Clément Mambu and Koen Bostoen Published in: Nyame Akuma, Issue 95, 2021, Page(s) 25-30, ISSN 0713-5815 Publisher: Society of Africanist Archaeologists Did human activity really trigger the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Central Africa? Author(s): Bernard Clist, Koen Bostoen, Pierre de Maret, Manfred K. H. Eggert, Alexa Höhn, Christophe Mbida Mindzié, Katharina Neumann, Dirk Seidensticker Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 115/21, 2018, Page(s) E4733-E4734, ISSN 0027-8424 Publisher: 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 Author(s): Dirk Seidensticker, Katharina Jungnickel, Clément Mambu, Jeanine Yogolelo, Roger Kidebua and Koen Bostoen Published in: Nyame Akuma, Issue 90, 2018, Page(s) 23-29, ISSN 0713-5815 Publisher: Society of Africanist Archaeologists The BantuFirst Project: 2018 Fieldwork Report from the Kongo Central Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Author(s): Bernard Clist, Suzanne Bigohe, Clément Mambu and Koen Bostoen Published in: Nyame Akuma, Issue 90, 2018, Page(s) 14-22, ISSN 0713-5815 Publisher: 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 Author(s): Igor Matonda Sakala, Suzanne Bigohe Mugisha and Koen Bostoen Published in: Nyame Akuma, Issue 92, 2019, Page(s) 19-24, ISSN 0713-5815 Publisher: Society of Africanist Archaeologists Le projet BantuFirst : rapport sur les recherches de terrain archéologiques 2021 dans la province de Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo Author(s): Igor Matonda Sakala and Koen Bostoen Published in: Nyame Akuma, Issue 97, 2022, Page(s) 22-27, ISSN 0713-5815 Publisher: Society of Africanist Archaeologists Other (1) Archeologen zoeken in Congo naar de wieg van het Kongo en haar zustertalen Author(s): Koen Bostoen Published in: Stemmen van Afrika, 2022 Publisher: Radboud Universiteit Book chapters (6) The Bantu expansion : some facts and fiction Author(s): Koen Bostoen Published in: Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact, edited by Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken,, 2020, Page(s) 227 - 239, ISBN 9780198723813 Publisher: Oxford University Press Nsong B85d Author(s): Joseph Koni Muluwa, Koen Bostoen Published in: The Bantu Languages, 2019, Page(s) 414-448, ISBN 9781315755946 Publisher: Routledge DOI: 10.4324/9781315755946-14 The Bantu Expansion Author(s): Koen Bostoen Published in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 2018 Publisher: Oxford University Press Chapter 10. Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? - A first assessment of the linguistic evidence Author(s): Koen Bostoen, Joseph Koni Muluwa Published in: Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, 2017, Page(s) 235-258, ISBN 9789027212559 Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company DOI: 10.1075/z.215.10bos Language and archaeology Author(s): Koen Bostoen Published in: The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, edited by Rainer Vossen and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, 2020, Page(s) 972–982, ISBN 9780199609895 Publisher: Oxford University Press The impact of autochthonous languages on Bantu language variation : a comparative view on southern and central Africa Author(s): Koen Bostoen and Hilde Gunnink Published in: The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact : Volume 1 : Population Movement and Language Change, edited by Salikoko Mufwene and Anna Maria Escobar, 2022, Page(s) 152-186, ISBN 9781009098649 Publisher: Cambridge University Press DOI: 10.1017/9781316796146.009 Thesis dissertations (2) A historical-comparative study of noun class systems in the Kasai-Ngounie (Extended) languages (Bantu B50-70, B81-84) Author(s): Flore Bollaert Published in: 2019 Publisher: Ghent The History of Ovicaprines in Central Africa: Historical-Linguistic Insights from West-Coastal Bantu Author(s): Febe Wylin Published in: 2021 Publisher: Ghent University Searching for OpenAIRE data... 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