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Bantu Homeland Project (1991-1998)
Between 1991 and 1998, Philippe Lavachery worked for the Wide Bantu Homeland Project, under the direction of professor Pierre de Maret, for the Brussels University (ULB), associated with the Royal Museum For Central Africa (Belgium) and the University of Yaoundé (Cameroon). As part of the project, he directed the excavations of Shum Laka rockshelter, in western Cameroon, which lead to the discovery of a 30 000 years stratigraphy as well as two burial episodes dated to 3 000 and 7 000 years respectively. The Shum Laka archaeological sequence is used today as a chronological reference for the whole region by africanist archaeologists.
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