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Extended Response to eLetter from Giresse et al.

  • 1. Department of Languages and Cultures, BantUGent—UGent Centre for Bantu Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2. Department of Languages and Cultures, BantUGent—UGent Centre for Bantu Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Royal Museum for Central Africa, Service of Wood Biology, Tervuren, Belgium
  • 3. Department of Biology, Limnology Unit, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  • 4. Department of Organismal Biology, Human Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  • 5. Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
  • 6. Department of Organismal Biology, Human Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa; SciLifeLab, Uppsala, Sweden.

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This document contains an extended reply to the e-Letter submitted by P. Giresse et al. to our article titled "

Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion"

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Journal article: 10.1126/sciadv.abd8352 (DOI)
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.4394893 (DOI)

Funding

European Commission
BantuFirst - The First Bantu Speakers South of the Rainforest: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Human Migration, Language Spread, Climate Change and Early Farming in Late Holocene Central Africa 724275
European Commission
AfricanNeo - The African Neolithic: A genetic perspective 759933