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14 Jan 2022
Made a short film of our latest #BantuFirst season in DRC. We had a great team from @ResearchUGent and @Unikinrdc doing some pretty exciting #archaeology survey and excavations. Sound on & check it out! (whole thing w/YouTube link)
#africanarchaeology #FieldworkFriday #research
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If you happen to be in Paris this Thursday, come hear about our most recent work in DRC and CAR at the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine!
#archaeology #africanarchaeology #CongUbangi
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May 18
Very happy to have this new article out on more of our work in #Angola
Here we present new and comprehensive study of the cultural chronology of Ndalambiri rock shelter, which includes both Final Pleistocene and Late Holocene occupations #archaeology 🧵
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May 18
Lastly, pottery form and decor show a strong continuity across both the Early and Late Iron ages, suggesting a degree of connection between these populations, contrary to other hypotheses regarding a late holocene occupation 'hiatus' across all of Central Africa.
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May 18
These, and additional, results from Ndalambiri provide important new data points on the process of the spread of village communities related to the Bantu Expansion across Central Africa and futher south.
Check out the article if this interests you! #africanarchaeology
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I feel like I have reached a milestone in my academic career. A reviewer has suggested that I engage more with the work of Peter R. Coutros.
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A new artcile out on some of our work in Angola at the site of Caculo Cabaça, lead by Sofia Mateus! This has revealed a sprawling arch landscape of burials, metalurgy and domestic sites - truely groundbreaking
Congrats to Sofia and the rest of our team!
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Peter R. Coutros retweeted
Apr 18
How far you can travel by train in 3 hours from Brussels
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there's just So Much Happening right now, but this really should have been a much bigger story
Apr 9
"One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.
And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday."
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Peter R. Coutros retweeted
Jan 18
Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
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28 Dec 2025
Jared Diamond’s map of Africa’s “races.”
Diamond uncritically reproduces antiquated theories of colonial scientific racism, despite acknowledging the limitations of this highly unscientific division of Africa into arbitrary races.
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6 Dec 2025
Absolutely not.
5 Dec 2025
I've noticed when submitting peer reviews that some journals now have a box you have to check that pledges that you didn't use AI when doing the review. This seems dumb to me. I do use AI when I do peer reviews. I do the following:
1. Write my review as I always have,
2. Upload the paper to a frontier model and ask it to do a review as well. (I have settings set up so this data is not retained e.g. for training),
3. I compare the LLM review against mine, and I add to mine things that the LLM caught that I did not if such things exist.
I think this produces a strictly better peer review.
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Peter R. Coutros retweeted
Ran across a hair-raising line by sixteenth-century writer John Foxe—“Not to understand what was done before we were born, is to live always as children”—and I think the complete lack of curiosity most people have towards the past is one reason everyone is now twelve.
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17 Oct 2025
Another great collaboration with Koen Bostoen, @petecout, @cschlebu and colleagues is online this week!
"The coevolution of languages, peoples and environments in Central Africa’s Kwilu-Kasai region since ∼1000 BCE: A dialogue with Jan Vansina" doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2025.1…
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16 Oct 2025
We've put together another great interdisciplinary paper on our work in DRC. This time we have entered into a 'conversation' with Jan Vansina's early work on the Kwilu-Kasai, with new arch, ling, genetic, and palaeoenv data @ Quaternary Env and Humans
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16 Oct 2025
Now, with much more data, we see the region as an important center of diversification and likely expansion of early Bantu-speakers. Some of Vansina's other ideas have stood up, while others need revision-check it out to see!
@JessamyDoman @BostoenKoen @CesarFortesLima @cschlebu
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13 Oct 2025
We are very excited to have Dr. Étienne Zangato join us tomorrow (14:00 CET) for a talk on his research across Cameroon and Central African Republic. If you are in Ghent, please stop by for a truely interesting lecture - if not, send me a message for the Zoom link!
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Peter R. Coutros retweeted
7 Oct 2025
New evidence reveals dispersal of pearl millet from West Africa to South Asia by 2500 BCE
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30 Jul 2025
I'm really happy to have this new chapter published in the Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language! Together with @BostoenKoen and @cschlebu, we track the history of Niger-Congo speaking peoples over ~20ky using archaeology, Language and genetics.
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30 Jul 2025
This interdisciplinary appraoch revealed that - contrary to earlier hypotheses - Niger-Congo speaking groups originated in southern West Africa prior to the African Humid Period. Instead of coming south during this period, these were local WA groups that expanded north and east.
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This is another reminder that not everything in West Africa comes from outside... and not everything is a result of populations moving from the Sahara southwards at the end of the AHP. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in reading! #archaeology #africanarchaeology
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