Between July 22 and 25, the CongUbangi archaeology team joined over 550 other participants at the 2025 meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists in Faro, Portugal. Our team presented three papers on various aspects of our recent ethnographic and archaeological research across northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and southern Central African Republic (CAR).
Henri Zana presented a talk on his ethnoarchaeological work in the Nola and Bangui regions (CAR), with a talk entitled “The ethnoarchaeology of pottery communities in southwest Central African Republic”. Lucien Nguerede presented a talk entitled “An ethnoarchaeology of metallurgy in the Central African Republic”, that focused on his research on ancient and modern metallurgists in the Bangui, Bouar, and Alindao regions (CAR). Finally, together with Karen Lupo and Dave Schmitt, Peter Coutros presented a comprehensive talk on the archaeological findings of the CongUbangi project, covering the past 2000 years, during his talk “Archaeology along the Forest rim: new research in southwestern CAR”.
