Bernard Clist, of French and British nationality, has been an archaeologist since 1982. He studies human occupation of Central Africa during the final Holocene. He took part in excavation campaigns in Cameroon (1983) and Zaire (1984), before directing archaeological research projects since 1985, notably in Angola (1987-1992), Gabon (1985-1995), Equatorial Guinea (1985, 1987, 2019-2020) and the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC (2012-2015, 2018). He has published or co-published over one hundred and fifty articles, nine websites and eight books. He is currently developing a research project on the first village settlements of Equatorial Guinea and is preparing a book for the British Archaeological Reports International Series in which he proposes a new analysis of knowledge on Central Africa relating to the last three thousand years.
He is also a research associate at the Institut des mondes africains (IMAF) in Paris (France) and at the Consejo de Investigaciones, Cientificas y Tecnologias (CICTE) in Equatorial Guinea.
