Nicolas Nikis

Biographic Data

ID136407
NAMENicolas Nikis
GIVEN NAMESNicolas
FAMILY NAMENikis
SIGNATURENIKIS N
AFFILIATIONSUniversité Libre de Bruxelles
ORCID0000-0002-1763-809X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS45
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Xxviie colloque de la Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA)

    Open AccessAdrien Delvoye, Nicolas NikisARTICLEAfrique Archeologie et Arts2025

  • Nouvelles données sur la technologie de la poterie au nord-est du bassin du Congo (RDC)

    Open AccessLajoie Vutseme Sokoni, Nicolas Nikis et al.ARTICLEAfrique Archeologie et Arts2025

    Le quart nord-est du bassin du Congo reste une région peu connue du point de vue des techniques de la poterie. Entre 2022 et 2024, plusieurs missions de terrain ont permis d’apporter de nouvelles données le long du fleuve Congo/Lualaba et dans la zone de Banalia, au nord-est de la République démocratique du Congo. Deux descriptions inédites de fabrication de poterie observée à Bongbangu et Bobabe (territoire de Banalia) sont d’abord présentées en…

  • Central African Copper

    Nicolas NikisCHAPTER2023

    Copper, considered a “red gold,” had a major place in the political economy of Central Africa over the past two millennia. Copper was a rare resource. Its ore was only accessible in a few scattered locations in Central Africa, especially the Copperbelt in southeast Central Africa and the Niari basin in the south of Republic of Congo. Until the massive imports of European alloys beginning in the 16th century, only unalloyed and leaded copper objec…

  • Smelting copper in decorated pottery

    Open AccessBraden W Cordivari, Nicolas Nikis et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2022Cited by: 2References: 66

    This paper considers copper production in the Niari Basin, Republic of the Congo, during a period dated to the mid-fifteenth-mid-seventeenth centuries CE. Using a combination of pXRF, OM, SEM-EDS, and FTIR, it assesses the microstructure and composition of slags and technical ceramics from sites associated with two different regional pottery traditions: Moubiri-type at the site of Kingoyi near Mindouli and Kindangakanzi-type at Kindangakanzi near…

  • Provenancing Central African copper croisettes

    Open AccessFrederik W Rademakers, Nicolas Nikis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2019Cited by: 7References: 8

  • Fouilles et prospections dans le territoire de Luozi

    Bernard Clist, Nicolas Nikis et al.CHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

    info:eu-repo/semantics/published

  • Prospections et sondages dans les zones cuprifères de Boko-Songho et Mindouli (République du Congo)

    Nicolas NikisCHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

    info:eu-repo/semantics/published

  • Production et commerce du cuivre

    Nicolas NikisCHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

  • Ceramics Decorated with Woven Motifs

    Open AccessEls Cranshof, Nicolas Nikis et al.CHAPTERKongo Kingdom2018

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  • Séquence chrono-culturelle de la poterie kongo (13e-19e siècles)

    Bernard Clist, Nicolas Nikis et al.CHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

  • Copper Production and Trade in the Niari Basin (Republic of Congo) During the 13th to 19th Centuries ce

    Open AccessFrederik W Rademakers, Nicolas Nikis et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2018Cited by: 8References: 33

    In Central Africa, copper ore occurs in only a few locations and copper appears to have been a scarce commodity in the past—contrary to iron, which is attested more widely and earlier in the sub‐Saharan archaeological record. This paper presents the first detailed characterization of an early copper‐working region in Central Africa. Located along the southern border of the Republic of the Congo, the Niari Basin has revealed several copper product…

  • Forests and rivers

    Open AccessAlexandre Livingstone Smith, Els Cornelissen et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2017Cited by: 13References: 7

  • Copper, Trade and Polities

    Nicolas Nikis, Alexandre Livingstone SmithARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2017Cited by: 15

    A rare, scattered resource in Central Africa, copper was produced in the Copperbelt since the 4th?7th centuries CE and traded over large distances from the 9th to the 19th centuries. It was exchanged mainly in the form of cross-shaped ingots, also called croisettes, varying in form and size over time and space. In this article, we explore and compare the spatial distribution of these ingots over time. This approach offers an opportunity to study …