From July 13 until July 27, 2023, Prof. Igor Matonda (UNIKIN, Kinshasa), Dr. Isis Mesfin (Museum of Natural History in Paris), Isidore Nkanu (UNIKIN, Kinshasa), and Ilo Ondel Holy (IMNC, Kinshasa) carried out a short fieldwork mission focussing on the Stone Age archaeology of the Bagata and Luani sites in the Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.