The first archaeometric study of ceramics from the Marshill rockshelter by A. Dorado-Alejos, F. Lander, and P. de la Peña reveals how potters shaped, smoothed, and fired their vessels in the Stormberg area during the late Holocene.
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The first scientific study of ceramics from the Lalibela region (Ethiopia) by Selina Han, Patrick Sean Quinn, Tania Tribe, Jacke Phillips, Laurence Smith, and Mesfin Getachew Wondim reveals diverse paste recipes tied to local geology or shared across site www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New research from Jebel Moya (Sudan) by Patrick Sean Quinn, Isabelle Vella Gregory, Hannah Page, Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman Adam and Michael Brass reveals two ancient ceramic recipes that stood the test of time, even as pottery styles and social dynamics evolved www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age, the study by Giulia D’Ercole, Julia Budka and Elena A.A. Garcea showcases how archaeometric analysis reveals deep cultural complexity in Sudanese ceramics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This first-ever lab study of Congo Basin pottery clay sourcing by Dirk Seidensticker, Wannes Hubau, Florias Mees, Géraldine Fiers, and Veerle Cnudde reveals shifting strategies: from unaltered sponge-rich river clays to tempered clays with grog & plant material www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New finds from two recently uncovered cemeteries in Alexandra (Egypt) presented by Magda Mahmoud Ibrahiem reveal how perfume vases—essential to funerary rites—evolved in shape and style during the Ptolemaic period www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This first-ever geochemical study of 19th–20th century earthenware from Amedeka by R. Dela Kuma and Brandi L. MacDonald reveals a regionally diverse pottery economy and how local pots connect to broader production and consumption networks in southeastern Ghana www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

At Ntuusi, western Uganda, a technological and geochemical deep dive into uniform roulette-decorated ceramics by Hannah Page, Patrick Sean Quinn, and Andrew Reid reveals a vibrant local pottery tradition in the early 2nd millennium CE www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The integrity of open-air sites has never been proven by utilising extensive refitting of lithics in combination with anthracological analyses in that region. The latest Late Stone Age findings are crucial to further our understanding of these insufficiently studied communities.

The site of Mukila, first excavated in 1952 by Maurice Bequaert, covers 40 millennia and provides a rare glimpse into the lithic production in the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene south of the equatorial rainforest of Central Africa.