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KONGOKING : Publications

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JOURNAL ARTICLES:

  • 1. Key articles


  • 2018:

    > Polet (C.), Clist (B.) & Bostoen (K.), 2018, Etude des restes humains de Kindoki (République Démocratique du Congo, fin XVIIème- début XIXème siècle), Bulletin de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 30: 70-89.

    2017:

    > Coccato (A.), Costa (M.), Rousaki (A.), Clist (B.), Karklins (K.), Bostoen (K.), Manhita (A.), Cardoso (A.), Barrocas Dias (C.), Candeias (A.), Moens (L.), Mirão (J.) & Vandenabeele (P.), 2017, Micro-Raman spectroscopy and complementary techniques (hXRF, VP-SEM-EDS, μ-FTIR, Py-GC/MS) applied to the study of beads from the Kongo Kingdom (Democratic Republic of the Congo),Journal of Raman Spectroscopy.

    > Kaumba (M.W.), 2017, Un dernier atelier de poterie Kongo-Mbata à Nsangi-Binsu (Bas-Congo, R.D. Congo). Anthropos, 112: 270-281.

    2016:

    > Brinkman (I.), 2016, Kongo interpreters, travelling priests and political leaders in the Kongo Kingdom (15th-19th century), International Journal of African Historical Studies, 49(2): 255-276.

    > Brinkman (I.) & Clist (B.), 2016, Spaces of correlation (Comments on the book by C. Fromont "The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo"), Journal of African History, 57 (1): 163-164.

    > Clist (B.), 2016, Questions de datation et d'origine. Les médailles chrétiennes et les crucifix trouvés lors de fouilles archéologiques en République démocratique du Congo / Dating and Sourcing the Artifacts. Christian Medals and Crucifixes Found in Archaelogical Excavations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In VOLPER J. (ed.), Du Jourdain au Congo : art et christianisme en Afrique centrale, Flammarion, Paris : 195-201.

    > Matonda Sakala (I.), 2016, Nouveaux regards sur la démographie du bassin de l'Inkisi à l'époque du royaume Kongo (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, 224 : 845-874.

    > Rousaki (A.), Coccato (A.), Verhaeghe (C.), Clist (B.), Bostoen (K.), Vandenabeele (P.) & Moens (L.), 2016, Combined spectroscopic analysis of beads from the tombs of Kindoki, Lower Congo Province (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Applied spectroscopy, 70 (1): 76-93.

    2015:

    > Bostoen (K.), Clist (B.), Doumenge (C.), Grollemund (R.), Hombert (J.-M.), Koni Muluwa (J.) & Maley (J.), 2015, Middle to Late Holocene Paleoclimatic Change and the Early Bantu Expansion in the Rain Forests of West Central-Africa, Current Anthropology, 56 (3): 354-384.

    > Bostoen (K.) & de Schryver (G.-M.), 2015, Linguistic innovation, political centralization and economic integration in the Kongo Kingdom: Reconstructing the spread of prefix reduction, Diachronica, 32 (2): 139-185.

    > Clist (B.), Cranshof (E.), De Herdt (T.), Kidebua (R.), Matonda (I.), Nkanza Lutayi (A.), Zaid (B.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, Le projet KongoKing: Les prospections et fouilles menées en 2015 dans la province du Kongo Central (République Démocratique du Congo), Nyame Akuma, 84: 128-141.

    > Clist (B.), Cranshof (E.), de Maret (P.), de Schryver (G.-M.), Kaumba (M.), Matonda (I.), Nikis (N.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, Archaeological research on the Kongo kingdom in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa. October Project Gallery of Antiquity journal. Online http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/clist347. Click here

    > Clist (B.), Cranshof (E.), de Schryver (G.-M.), Herremans (D.), Karklins (K.), Matonda (I.), Polet (C.), Sengeløv (A.), Steyaert (F.), Verhaeghe (C.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, The elusive archaeology of Kongo urbanism: The case of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi (Lower Congo, DRC), African Archaeological Review, 32 (3): 369–412.

    > Clist (B.), Cranshof (E.), de Schryver (G.-M.), Herremans (D.), Karklins (K.), Matonda (I.), Steyaert (F.), & Bostoen (K.), 2015, African-European Contacts in the Kongo Kingdom (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries): New Archaeological Insights from Ngongo Mbata (Lower Congo, DRC), International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 19 (3): 464–501.

    > De Kind (J.), Dom (S.), de Schryver (G.-M.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo: From predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa. Folia Linguistica Historica, 36: 113-163.

    > de Schryver (G.-M.). On the most innovative outer access structure of any Bantu dictionary: the lexique kikongo – français by Charles Polis (1938). Lexikos 25: 56-135.
    [freely available here]

    > de Schryver (G.-M.), Grollemund (R.), Branford (S.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster, Africana Linguistica, 21: 87-162.

    > Dom (S.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, Examining variation in the expression of tense/aspect to classify the Kikongo Language Cluster, Africana Linguistica, 21: 163-211.

    > Kaumba (M.), 2015, Le projet Kongoking : Enquetes sur la poterie kongo contemporaine menées en 2015 dans les provinces du Kongo-Central (République Démocratique du Congo), du Zaire et de Uíge (République d'Angola), Nyame Akuma, 84: 154-160.

    > Matonda (I.), Cranshof (E.), de Schryver (G.-M.), Clist (B.) & Bostoen (K.). 2015. A la recherche de Mbanza Nsundi, capitale provinciale du royaume Kongo. Fouilles archéologiques au site de Kindoki (Bas-Congo, RDC). Congo-Afrique 496: 532-548.

    > Nikis (N.) & De Putter (Th.), 2015, Recherches géo-archéologiques dans les zones cupriferes du bassin du Niari en République du Congo, Nyame Akuma, 84: 142-153

    2014:

    > Bostoen (K.), Cranshof (E.), Clist (B.) & de Schryver (G.-M.), 2014, KongoKing, een vergeten koninkrijk in Congo, Exsitu: Tijdschrift voor Vlaamse Archeologie, 6: 6-11.

    > Clist (B.), Nikis (N.), Nkanza Lutayi (A.), Overmeire (J.), Praet (M.), Scheerlinck (K.) & Bostoen (K.), 2014, Le projet KongoKing: Les prospections et fouilles menées en 2014 à Misenga, Sumbi et Ngongo Mbata (Province du Bas-Congo, RDC), Nyame Akuma, 82: 48-56.

    > De Kind (J.), 2014, Pre-verbal focus in Kisikongo (H16a, Bantu), ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 57: 95-122.

    > Kaumba (M.), 2014, Le projet Kongoking : Enquêtes sur la poterie kongo contemporaine menées en 2014 dans la province du Bas-Congo (République Démocratique du Congo), Nyame Akuma, 82: 66-72.

    > Matonda (I.), Cranshof (E.), Mambu (C.), Kidebua (R.) & Bostoen (K.), 2014, Le projet KongoKing : Prospections archéologiques et enquêtes ethnoarchéologiques dans la vallée de l'Inkisi et régions avoisinantes (Province du Bas-Congo, RDC), Nyame Akuma, 82: 57-65.

    > Nikis (N.) & Champion (L.), 2014, Fouilles, prospections, et prélèvements archéobotaniques dans les zones cuprifères de Mindouli et Boko-Songho en République du Congo, Nyame Akuma, 82: 73-83.

    > Verhaeghe (C.), Clist (B.), Fontaine (C.), Karklins (K.), Bostoen (K.), & De Clercq (W.), 2014, Shell and glass beads from the tombs of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Lower Congo, Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers, 26: 23-34.

    2013:

    > Bostoen (K.), Ndonda Tshiyayi (O.) & de Schryver (G.-M.), 2013, On the Origin of the Royal Kongo Title ngangula, Africana Linguistica, 19: 53-83.

    > Clist (B.), 2013, Our iron smelting 14C dates from Central Africa: from a plain appointment to a full blown relationship, in Humphris (J.) and Rehren (T.) eds., The World of Iron, Archetype Publications, London: 22-28.

    > Clist (B.), de Maret (P.), de Schryver (G.-M), Kaumba (M.), Matonda (I.), Cranshof (E.), & Bostoen (K.), 2013, The KongoKing Project: 2012 fieldwork report from the Lower Congo Province (DRC), Nyame Akuma, 79: 60-73.

    > Clist (B.), de Maret (P.), Livingstone-Smith (A.), Cranshof (E.), Kaumba (M.), Matonda (I.), Mambu (C.), Yogolelo (J.) & Bostoen (K.), 2013, The KongoKing Project: 2013 Fieldwork Report from the Lower Congo Province (DRC), Nyame Akuma, 80: 22-31.

    > Nikis (N.), de Maret (P.), Lanfranchi (R.), Nsania (J.), Goma (J.-P.), Clist (B.) & Bostoen (K.), 2013, Projet KongoKing. Prospections en République du Congo (Brazzaville) : le cuivre et l'origine des anciens royaumes Kongo et Teke, Nyame Akuma, 80: 32-42.

    2012:

    > Clist (B), 2012, Pour une archéologie du royaume Kongo : la Tradition de Mbafu, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 47 (2): 175-209.

    > De Kind (J.), de Schryver (G.-M.) & Bostoen (K.), 2012, Pushing back the origin of Bantu lexicography: the Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012, Lexikos, 22: 159-194.

  • 2. More publications by project members

  • > See https://biblio.ugent.be/project/kongoking