L’archéologie sur Internet : 20 ans après l’esquisse présentée dans Les nouvelles de l’archéologie

Though Internet began in 1989, it was not until 1993 that the world-wide web started to expand, still limited to research and higher education centers. The publication in 1998 in issue 72 of the Nouvelles de l’archéologie of the first texts promoting the first archaeology contents is recounted, while the situation of the use of Internet in France and in the world is recalled. In a second part the evolution from 1998 to today of the use of Internet is outlined, using examples taken from the archaeology domain

The earliest iron-producing communities in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa : new insights from the Bu, Kindu and Mantsetsi sites

In 2015 the KongoKing research project team excavated the Bu, Kindu and Mantsetsi sites situated in the Kongo-Central Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). All are part of the Kay Ladio Group. This is the first detailed publication on this cultural group, to which no contemporary ones can currently be linked, either from the Atlantic coast of Congo-Brazzaville or from along the Congo River and its tributaries upstream of Kinshasa. Dated to between cal. AD 30 and 475, these settlements mark the presence of what are so far the oldest known iron-producing communities south of the Central African equatorial forest. Evidence for metallurgy is associated with remants of polished stone axes, which were perhaps being used for ritual purposes by this point in time. The charcoal remains found at the sites indicate a savanna environment that was more wooded in Kindu and Mantsetsi than in Bu

Les débuts de la céramique, de la sédentarisation et de la métallurgie

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Stratégies et méthodologies

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Shell and glass beads from the tombs of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Lower Congo

The ancient Kingdom of Kongo originated in Central Africa in the 14th century. In the 15th century, the Portuguese organized tight contacts with the Bakongo. From then on European goods gained new significance in the local culture and even found their way into funerary rites. Among the most important grave goods in the Kingdom of Kongo were shell and glass beads. They occur in many tombs and symbolize wealth, status, or femininity. At the burial site of Kindoki, linked with the former capital of Kongo’s Nsundi province, a great number of shell and glass beads were found together with symbols of power in tombs attributed primarily to the first half of the 19th century. Determining the origin of these beads and their use in the Kongo Kingdom leads to interesting insights into the social and economic organization of the old Bakongo society, their beliefs, and the symbolic meaning of the beads