The BantuFirst project team presented three talks during the online conference “Extracting the Past from the Present”, an international and interdisciplinary conference on African precolonial history organized by the ERC-SG BantuRivers project at ULB:
- “How to Retrieve Lost Paths in the Rainforest?” by Koen Bostoen, Wannes Hubau, Sara Pacchiarotti and Dirk Seidensticker
- “New Genetic Light on Old Linguistic Questions from the West-Coastal Bantu Homeland” by Cesar Fortes-Lima, Carina Schlebusch, Leon Mundeke, Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen
- “Weeding the Bantu Banana Plot: Lexical Reconstruction and Ancient Musa History in Africa” by Sifra Van Acker, Sara Pacchiarotti, Edmond De Langhe & Koen Bostoen
