Dirk Seidensticker
@dirkseidensticker.bsky.social
#Archaeologists @UGent @ArcheoUGent @FWOVlaanderen | 🏺🔬 | Pottery Technology | Knowledge Transfer | Congo Basin | #RStats | @uni_tue alumnus
Doing pXRF analyses on potsherds from the Congo Basin @goetheuni.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Doing pXRF analyses on potsherds from the Congo Basin @goetheuni.bsky.social
The virtual special issue on "Scientific Analysis on Pottery Finds from Africa" in the JASRep is taking shape: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Check comments below to find out about each individual paper!
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports | Scientific Analysis on Pottery Finds from Africa: Challenges and Perspectives for Petrographic and Geo-chemical Studies | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
This special issue features studies on ceramics artefacts from all parts of the African continent, spanning the past 10 millennia. These studies employ almost all modern archaeometric methods, includi...
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August 12, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The virtual special issue on "Scientific Analysis on Pottery Finds from Africa" in the JASRep is taking shape: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Check comments below to find out about each individual paper!
I am happy to share my latest paper on the Pikunda-Munda pottery: link.springer.com/article/10.1... and as usual, all data and code are available here github.com/dirkseidenst... & zenodo.org/records/1464... In it, I highlight pottery chaînes opératoires and petrographic evidence
January 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I am happy to share my latest paper on the Pikunda-Munda pottery: link.springer.com/article/10.1... and as usual, all data and code are available here github.com/dirkseidenst... & zenodo.org/records/1464... In it, I highlight pottery chaînes opératoires and petrographic evidence
Important new research on little known phase of forager communities living in Central Africa - the younger part of the Late Stone Age – published by @mtrkavimejuplsu and collaborators @goetheuni @ArcheoUGent @FWOVlaanderen #flintfriday sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Late Pleistocene and Holocene chronocultural and anthracological open-air sequence from Mukila (DRC)
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene open-air archaeological sites have been assumed to be disturbed throughout Central Africa because key sites locate…
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July 5, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Important new research on little known phase of forager communities living in Central Africa - the younger part of the Late Stone Age – published by @mtrkavimejuplsu and collaborators @goetheuni @ArcheoUGent @FWOVlaanderen #flintfriday sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Today's endeavour: running chemical survey on pottery sherds with pXRF @AfricamuseumTervuren 🏺⚛️👨🏻🔬
February 22, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Today's endeavour: running chemical survey on pottery sherds with pXRF @AfricamuseumTervuren 🏺⚛️👨🏻🔬
Call-for-Papers for an online workshop on: "Scientific analyses on pottery finds from Africa" on June 7th, 2024. We invite papers on all aspects of scientific analyses of pottery from any archaeological period in Africa. Please send titles and abstracts (max. 250 words) by January 31st, 2024 🏺🔬
November 14, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Call-for-Papers for an online workshop on: "Scientific analyses on pottery finds from Africa" on June 7th, 2024. We invite papers on all aspects of scientific analyses of pottery from any archaeological period in Africa. Please send titles and abstracts (max. 250 words) by January 31st, 2024 🏺🔬
Started working on a collection of pottery from the north-eastern Congo Basin and what can I say; it's different 🫣 With sites located along rivers draining from the Rwenzori mountains, I encounter new minerals wherever I look 🏺🔬
November 6, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Started working on a collection of pottery from the north-eastern Congo Basin and what can I say; it's different 🫣 With sites located along rivers draining from the Rwenzori mountains, I encounter new minerals wherever I look 🏺🔬
What to do on a rainy autumn day? Catch up on yesterday's notes from my meeting with Dr. Florias Mees (RMCA) concerning my petrographic descriptions (and all the little things I missed) and starting to work on pottery from the north-eastern Congo Basin
October 25, 2023 at 11:06 AM
What to do on a rainy autumn day? Catch up on yesterday's notes from my meeting with Dr. Florias Mees (RMCA) concerning my petrographic descriptions (and all the little things I missed) and starting to work on pottery from the north-eastern Congo Basin