TY - JOUR
T1 - Mining the archives
T2 - A pottery sequence for Borno, Nigeria
AU - Connah, Graham
AU - Daniels, S. G.H.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - New archaeological research in Borno by the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has included the analysis of pottery excavated from several sites during the 1990s. This important investigation made us search through our old files for a statistical analysis of pottery from the same region, which although completed in 1981 was never published. The material came from approximately one hundred surface collections and seven excavated sites, spread over a wide area, and resulted from fieldwork in the 1960s and 1970s. Although old, the analysis remains relevant because it provides a broad geographical context for the more recent work, as well as a large body of independent data with which the new findings can be compared. It also indicates variations in both time and space that have implications for the human history of the area, hinting at the ongoing potential of broadscale pottery analysis in this part of West Africa and having wider implications of relevance to the study of archaeological pottery elsewhere.
AB - New archaeological research in Borno by the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has included the analysis of pottery excavated from several sites during the 1990s. This important investigation made us search through our old files for a statistical analysis of pottery from the same region, which although completed in 1981 was never published. The material came from approximately one hundred surface collections and seven excavated sites, spread over a wide area, and resulted from fieldwork in the 1960s and 1970s. Although old, the analysis remains relevant because it provides a broad geographical context for the more recent work, as well as a large body of independent data with which the new findings can be compared. It also indicates variations in both time and space that have implications for the human history of the area, hinting at the ongoing potential of broadscale pottery analysis in this part of West Africa and having wider implications of relevance to the study of archaeological pottery elsewhere.
KW - Borno
KW - Nigeria
KW - Pottery sequence
KW - Spatial distribution
KW - Statistical analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=9144267554&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3213/1612-1651-10002
DO - 10.3213/1612-1651-10002
M3 - Article
SN - 1612-1651
VL - 1
SP - 39
EP - 76
JO - Journal of African Archaeology
JF - Journal of African Archaeology
IS - 1
ER -