Shaping Kabambian Pottery

Identification and Definition of Technical Features~!2009-08-24~!2009-11-25~!2010-04-06

Bibliographic Data

ID6017096
AuthorsAlexandre Livingstone Smith (0000-0002-0929-1129, Royal Museum for Central Africa), Aline Viseyrias
Year2010
Volume3
Issue1
Pages124-141
Publication date2010-04-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Open Anthropology Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1874-9127
PublisherBentham Science Publishers Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2174/1874912701003010124
OpenAlexW2023111268
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited8

The excavation of a series of graveyards during the '50 and '70 in the Upemba depression (Katanga, DRC) led to the establishment of a cultural sequence spanning the 7 th to the 20 th century AD.This sequence consists in a succession of archaeological cultures displaying elements of rupture and continuity, particularly visible in the shape and decoration of pottery.To answer questions pertaining to population dynamics in central Katanga, we decided to check whether or not these variations where reflected in pottery roughing-out technologies.Because they are related to a strong interaction between master and apprentice and are associated to an essential step of pottery apprenticeship, pottery roughing-out methods are indeed considered to be more stable -i.e.related to deeply rooted forms of identity -than form or decoration.In this paper, we present the analysis and reconstruction of Kabambian pottery roughing-out methods -a first for central Africa.Our conclusion indicates, that Kabambian pottery (dated between the 13 th and the 18 th century AD) was made by cylindrical coiling with slab bottom

Archaeology · Identification (biology · Pottery · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Computer Science · History · Law, logistics, and international trade · Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization

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