NOUVEAUTÉS / NEW PUBLICATIONS: 2025

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2025:

- BOCOUM (H.), 2025, African Metallurgies, in HOLL (A.) ed., General History of Africa. IX. General History of Africa Revisited, UNESCO, Paris, pp. 771-788. [Region].

- BOSTOEN (K.), COUTROS (P.R.), DOMAN (J.H.), FORTES-LIMA (C.A.), PACCHIAROTTI (S.) & SCHLEBUSCH (C.), 2025, The Coevolution of Languages, Peoples and Environments in Central Africa’s Kwilu-Kasai Region since ~1000 BCE: A Dialogue with Jan Vansina, Quaternary Environments and Humans, October. [DRC].

- BOSTOEN (K.), COUTROS (P.R.), DOMAN (J.H.) & MATONDA SAKALA (I.), 2025, Rethinking the Bantu Expansion from South of the Congo Rainforest, In COUTROS (P.R.), DOMAN (J.H.), MATONDA SAKALA (I.) & BOSTOEN (K.) eds., 2025, An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion, Early Settlers South of the Congo Rainforest, Routledge, London & New York, pp. 565-584. [Region].

- CLIST (B.), DOUCET (J.-L.), GIRESSE (P.) & MALEY (J.), 2025, The Sangha River Interval, its Earliest Village Settlements and the Bantu-speakers’ expansion during the Late Holocene (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Republic), African Archaeological Review, 42, pp. 173–209. [Region].

- COUTROS (P.R.), DOMAN (J.H.), MATONDA SAKALA (I.) & BOSTOEN (K.), 2025, An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion, Early Settlers South of the Congo Rainforest, Routledge, London & New York. [Region & DRC].

- COUTROS (P.R.), MATONDA SAKALA (I.), NGUEREDE (L.P.), ZANA (H.), HOLY (I. & PACCHIAROTTI (S.), 2025, The CongUbangi Project: 2024 fieldwork report on reconnaissance, excavations and ethnoarchaeology in Gemena and Libenge (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Nyame Akuma, 103, pp. 56-62. [DRC]

- de MARET (P.), 2025, A New Bantu Story with More than a Few Thorny Issues, In COUTROS (P.R.), DOMAN (J.H.), MATONDA SAKALA (I.) & BOSTOEN (K.) eds., 2025, An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion, Early Settlers South of the Congo Rainforest, Routledge, London & New York, pp. 83-102. [Region].

- EDWARDS (N.), SCHMITT (D.N.) & LUPO (K.), 2025, The archeological implications of handling effort and technological requirements on the exploitation of canarium and African oil palm among tropical Africa populations, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 17, 201. [Region].

- EPOSSI NTAH (Z. L.), CULTRONE (G.), & NDOME EFFOUDOU-PRISO (E.), 2025, Multi-analytical study of clay tobacco pipes from Nditam (Centre Cameroon, west Central Africa). Archaeometry, 67, 3, pp. 1–24. [Cameroon].

- FORTES-LIMA (C.A.), PACCHIAROTTI (S.), MASELLI (L.), DONZO BUNZA YUGIA (J.P.), KOUARATA (G.), KONI MULUWA (J.), , MUNDEKE (L.), BOSTOEN (K.) & SCHLEBUSCH (C.), 2025, The Early Bantu Expansion into Central Africa, New Data and Insights from Population Genetics, In COUTROS (P.R.), DOMAN (J.H.), MATONDA SAKALA (I.) & BOSTOEN (K.) eds., 2025, An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion, Early Settlers South of the Congo Rainforest, Routledge, London & New York, pp. 172-194. [Genes].

- GIRESSE (P.), CLIST (B.), CHEPSTOW-LUSTY (A.) & MALEY (J.), 2025, Ancient charcoal archives for understanding palaeofire regimes, sedimentary processes and vegetation changes in the rainforests of Central Africa: review and challenges, Global Planetary Research, published online 10 November 2025, 105174. [Region].

- HOLL (A.), 2025, The Emergence and Development of Food-Producing Economies,in HOLL (A.) ed., General History of Africa. IX. General History of Africa Revisited, UNESCO, Paris, pp. 637-654. [Region].

- HUYSECOM (E.), 2025, The Invention of Pottery in Africa and the Context in which it Appeared, in HOLL (A.) ed., General History of Africa. IX. General History of Africa Revisited, UNESCO, Paris, pp. 759-769. [Region].

- KIAHTIPES (C.A.), 2025, Mapping the Palaeoenvironmental Context of the Bantu Expansion, In COUTROS (P.R.), DOMAN (J.H.), MATONDA SAKALA (I.) & BOSTOEN (K.) eds., 2025, An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion, Early Settlers South of the Congo Rainforest, Routledge, London & New York, pp. 27-53. [Paleo].

- LEPLONGEON (A.), BEN AROUS (E.), MESFIN (I.), FORESTIER (H.), GALLET (X.), GRIGGO (C.), PUAUD (S.), S&ÉMAH (A.-M.), VIALOU (A.), PLEURDEAU (D.) & LOURDEAU (A.), 2025, The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10 ky, Journal of World Prehistory, 38, 7. [Region] (Pages 16-21 about Central Africa).

- LEZINE (A.-M.), 2025, Paleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Research in Africa, in HOLL (A.) ed., General History of Africa. IX. General History of Africa Revisited, UNESCO, Paris, pp. 483-509. [Region].

- MENGES (J.), SEBAG (D.), LEBAMBA (J.), KIAHTIPES (C.), WOTZKA (H.-P.), PREUß (J.), BOKOMBA BWAMANGELE (F.), KIDEBUA LUTONADIO (R.), GUARDIOLA (M.), ADATTE (T.), STROOBANDT (Y.), BOUILLON (S.), GARCIN (Y.), SCHEFUß (E.), 2025, Environmental and climatic evolution of a river-proximal peatland in the Cuvette Centrale, Congo Basin, Quaternary Science Reviews, 363, 109445. [Paleo].

- MESFIN (I.), 2025, Central African Hunter-Gatherers, A History Deeply Rooted in Time and Space, In COUTROS (P.R.), DOMAN (J.H.), MATONDA SAKALA (I.) & BOSTOEN (K.) eds., 2025, An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion, Early Settlers South of the Congo Rainforest, Routledge, London & New York, pp. 54-82. [Region].

- MESFIN (I.), BENJAMIM (M.-H.), LUSSENTO CUPATE (J.), BENJAMIM (E.P.), COUTROS (P.R.), HAMMOU (Y.), DOMINGOS SABÃO (N.), HANON (R.), RAUL (C.M.), VIE (J.-Th.), 2025, A New Multidisciplinary Approach to the Ndalambiri Rockshelter, Cuanza Sul Province, Angola, Lesedi, 27, pp. 47-54. [Angola].

- NDJONDJO MANGA (J.P.), 2025, Mission 2023 sur l'histoire du Sankuru (territoire de Kole), République démocratique du Congo Approche historique, anthropologique et archéologique, Nyame Akuma, 103, pp. 48-55. [DRC].

- N'NANGA (A.), BAYON (G.), LEVACHER (M.), TRINQUIER (A.) & ANSELMETTI (F.S.), 2025, Late Holocene linkages between soil erosion, phosphate bioavailability and lake productivity in Central Africa, Catena, 256, 109126. [Region, Paleo].

- ROSAS (A.), GARCíA-TABERNERO (A.), FIDALGO (D.), FERO MEÑE (M.), EBANA EBANA (C.), ORNIA (M.), FERNÁNDEZ-MARTÍNEZ (J.), SÁNCHEZ-MORAL (S.), IGNACIO MORALES (J.), 2025, Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the Atlantic rainforests of Central Africa. The case of Río Campo region in Equatorial Guinea, Quaternary Science Reviews, 349, 109132. [Equatorial Guinea].

- ROTUNNO (R.) & CREMA (E.R.), 2025, Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa, Nature Communications, Published online October 3, 2025. [Region].

- SEIDENSTICKER (D.), 2025, Pikunda-Munda and Batalimo-Maluba, African Archaeological Review, 42, published online January 13, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-024-09610-8.[Congo, DRC].

- SEIDENSTICKER (D.), HUBAU (W.), MEES (F.), FIERS (G.) & CNUDDE (V.), 2025, On and off the rivers: Changes in clay sourcing and preparation strategies in the Congo Basin throughout the past two millennia, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 66. [DRC].

- THORNTON (J.), 2025, The Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in West Central Africa, Journal of African History, 66, e25, 1–16. [Region].

- TUFFRA GRIACHET (M.), GRATUZE (B.), GENEQUAND (D.), LOUKOU (Y.S.B.), HUYSECOM (E.) & MAYOR (A.), 2025, The systematic techno-stylistic and chemical study of glass beads from post-15th century West African sites, Plos One, Published: February 10, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318588. [Region].

- VUTSEME SOKONI (L.), NIKIS (N.) & LIVINGSTONE SMITH (A.), 2025, Nouvelles données sur la technologie de la poterie au nord-est du bassin du Congo (RDC), Afrique, Archéologie & Arts, 21, 27-42. [DRC].

- YANOVICH, I., 2025, Reconstructing the Historical Structure of the Bantu Language Family: Old Challenges, New Insights, Annual Review of Linguistics, 11, pp. 299-322. [Region].