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West Central African peoples: Survey of radiocarbon dates over the past 5000 years
Oslisly, Richard; Bentaleb, Ilham; Favier, Charly et al.
2013In Radiocarbon, 55 (2-3), p. 1377-1382
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Keywords :
archaeology; radiocarbon dates; Central Africa; Bantu expansion; temporal patterns
Abstract :
[en] Tracing human history in west central Africa suffers from a scarcity of historical data and archaeological remains. In order to provide new insight into this problem, we reviewed 733 radiocarbon dates of archaeological sites from the end of the Late Stone Age, Neolithic Stage, and Early and Late Iron Age in Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo, and the western Democratic Republic of Congo. This review provides a spatiotemporal framework of human settlement in the forest biome. Beyond the well-known initial spread of Iron Age populations through central African forests from 2500 cal BP, it depicts the geographical patterns and links with the cultural evolution of the successive phases of human expansion from 5000 to 3000 cal BP and then from 3000 to 1600 cal BP, of the interland depopulation from 1350 to 850 cal BP, and of recolonization up to 500 cal BP.
Disciplines :
Archaeology
Author, co-author :
Oslisly, Richard;  IRD
Bentaleb, Ilham;  Université Montpellier 2
Favier, Charly;  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS
Fontugne, Michel;  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS
Gillet, Jean-François ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Forêt, Nature et Paysage > Laboratoire de Foresterie des régions trop. et subtropicales > doctorant
Morin-Rivat, Julie ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Forêts, Nature et Paysage > Laboratoire de Foresterie des régions trop. et subtropicales
Language :
English
Title :
West Central African peoples: Survey of radiocarbon dates over the past 5000 years
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Radiocarbon
ISSN :
0033-8222
Publisher :
University of Arizona, United States - Arizona
Volume :
55
Issue :
2-3
Pages :
1377-1382
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
CoForChange project
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