Archaeologist, Anthropologist, Ambulator. African Archaeology Stan and Climate Change research. Postdoc @Ugent #CongUbangi Project | Alum @Yale_anthro
Ghent, Belgium
Joined March 2012
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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)
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Hard to believe this, really. Apparently, zero grants for archaeology and bioanth projects were awarded by the NSF in 2026. The USA's long-standing leading position in these fields won't survive many years of no NSF research grants.
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Private Equity strikes again - this time destroying archaeological CRM firm employing more than 600 people.
Archaeology megafirm abruptly shuts down science.org/content/article/…
New publication out in the journal Ethnoarchaeology!
I am really proud of this article, as it combines several years of our work in archaeology, ethnography, and linguistics to uncover the history of the northern Congo Basin and Ubangi-speaking peoples!
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This is another example of how powerful interdisciplinary approaches can be when applied judiciously. Especially in #africanarchaeology. We had a great team working on this, including Sara Pacchiarotti and Henri Zana.
Taking some more samples from our Central African pottery for Organic Residue Analysis at the ISOFYS lab at UGent! This work will continue to give us a better insight into Early Iron Age diets from DRC and CAR.
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The 13th International Mande Studies Conference on June 21-24, 2027 in Dakar, Senegal, is a bilingual (French/English), interdisciplinary conference for those studying human & environmental dynamics in West Africa. Deadline for abstracts is Oct 15 mandestudies.org/13th-intern…
Just gave a preview of our CongUbangi Project results on the Tazunu Megaliths of Central Africa Republic at #EAA2026 in Athens!
#archaeology #africanarchaeology #megaliths
Another great review of our book 'An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion'! This time in African Archaeological Review.
#archaeology #africanarchaeology
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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!
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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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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.
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