Cornelissen, E.,  Mesfin, I. & Angue-Zogo, M.-J. 2025. ‘Lithic Finds from the Kwilu-Kasai and the Kongo-Central Province’. In: Coutros, P. R., Doman, J.H., Matonda Sakala, I. & Bostoen,K. (eds), An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion. Early Settlers South of the Congo Rainforest. Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 335-370. (PR) ISBN: 9781032658148. DOI: 10.4324/9781032658148-21.

Chapter in an edited book / Article in an edited book

Between 2020 and 2023 the BantuFirst archaeological team identified thirty-seven lithic-bearing sites across the Kwilu-Kasai region that span the period between the Final Pleistocene and the Late Holocene. Here, we present the results of a techno-typological analysis of lithics from eleven surface scatters, and two excavated sites with Late Holocene flaked stone from Luani and Late Pleistocene blade production at Bagata. Additional data come from profile collections at Boma 1, a site in the Kongo-Central Province first identified by the BantuFirst team in 2018. After assessing possible techno-cultural affiliations for the surface and excavated assemblages, this chapter explores their potential for assessing technological innovation or persistence within the Late Pleistocene and Holocene lithic archaeological record of Central Africa.