Bernard Clist is an anthropologically and historically oriented archaeologist, who has specialised during the last 37 years in the later Holocene archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa, specifically of Central Africa. He has directed research project about the region's first villages in Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. From 1985 until 1995 he was the CICIBA Archaeology Department's head, department he had created in Gabon.

He has also carried out numerous Environmental Impact Studies for American, British, and French companies in Cameroon, Gabon and Zambia. Overall he has published over 150 papers and 8 books or booklets, and created 9 web sites relating to archaeology and anthropology.

From 2015 to 2017, he was associated to finish and polish the Republic of Angola final report to UNESCO to get the ancient capital of the Kongo kingdom, Mbanza Kongo, onto the World Heritage List. This was effective in July 2017. 

He was contracted by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to audit the rescue and preventive archaeology program funded by the Agency between 2014 and 2019 at the Lom Pangar hydro-electricity dam in Cameroon. The audit was conducted during 2022-2023 and the final report accepted in 2024.

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