aSCAC (Archive des styles de céramique en Afrique centrale)
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)
Datasets
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sites.csv
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 |
potterygroups.csv
| 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) |
potterydrawings.csv
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 |