Dirk Seidensticker
This repository contains an archive of pottery groups in Central Africa.
The initial version of the data was first published in:
Seidensticker, D., W. Hubau, D. Verschuren, C. Fortes-Lima, P. de Maret, C.M. Schlebusch & K. Bostoen. 2021. Population Collapse in Congo Rainforest from AD 400 Urges Reassessment of the Bantu Expansion. Science Advances 7. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd8352. (data: https://github.com/dirkseidensticker/HumActCentralAfrica_Paper)
Fig. 1: Evolution of the numerical abundance and geographical distribution of pottery styles in the Congo rainforest over the past 3000 years (see Seidensticker et al. 2021: Fig. 3).
Fig. 2: Map of the distribution areas of pottery styles through time
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A list of sites and the described pottery styles / groups that were found there:
| Datafield | Description |
|---|---|
| REGION | Region (cf. Seidensticker et al. 2021) |
| SITE | Name of the site |
| LAT | Latitude |
| LONG | Longitude |
| POTTERY | Pottery style (cf. potterygroups.csv) |
| SOURCE | Source |
| Datafield | Description |
|---|---|
| ID | |
| POTTERY | Name of the pottery group / style |
| FROM | maximum age |
| TO | minimal age |
| DESCRIPTION | A description of the chronological arguments of the group (cf. Seidensticker et al. 2021 Data S2) |
| REGION | Region (cf. Seidensticker et al. 2021) |
| COL | a hexadecimal color code for plott (cf. Seidensticker 2021 Ch. 5) |
This dataset contains a list of drawn pottery sherds and vessels with their sources and as much metadata as could be extracted from the literature. It further contains measurements (cf. Seidensticker 2021, pp. 31-32 Abb. 6).
| Datafield | Description |
|---|---|
| SITE | Name of the site (cf. site.csv) |
| FEATURE | |
| OBJECT | |
| POTTERY | Pottery style (cf. potterygroups.csv) |
| TypeOrig | |
| muendungsD | diameter at the mouth |
| muendungsH | height at the mouth (maximal height) |
| minD | minimal diameter |
| minD_H | height at the minimal diameter (above base) |
| maxD | maximum diameter |
| maxD_H | height at the maximum diameter (above base) |
| bodenD | diameter of the base |
| SOURCE | Sourece |