The KongoKing Project: 2012 Fieldwork Report from the Lower Congo Province (DRC)

Abstract

In order to understand the origins of the Kongo kingdom, the KongoKing research group conducted a first survey in the area usually regarded as the former kingdom’s provincial capital sites of Mbanza Nsundi and Mbanza Mbata in the Lower Congo Province of the DRC during the summer of 2012. Several test excavations and radiocarbon dates are starting to shed some light on the last five centuries in the area.