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SUMMARY:Potters’ Genealogies of Practice in the Congo Basin? Retracing S
 ocial Learning and Trans-Generational Training Networks through the past t
 wo-and-a-half Millennia - Dr Dirk Seidensticker\, Ghent University
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DESCRIPTION:Ceramics constitute the most prominent find category encounter
 ed by archaeologists in Central Africa and forms the basis of various regi
 onal chrono-historical frameworks. Until some decades ago\, pottery was st
 ill produced widely within the equatorial rainforest. With archaeological 
 reconstructions claiming a two-and-a-half millennia long tradition\, the C
 ongo Basin is a prime study area to investigate the transfer of knowledge 
 among potters’ communities through time.\n\nA recently concluded researc
 h project at the University of Ghent provides first insights into Trans-Ge
 nerational Training Networks of potters' in the region. Relying on existin
 g ethnographic and archaeological collections and employing a multilayered
  analytical framework resulted in reconstructions of collective chaînes o
 pératoires. Combining those with information about the local\, intermedia
 te or trans-local nature of vessels\, by means of ceramic petrography and 
 pXRF data\, communities of practice could be inferred and their interrelat
 ionships through time mapped.\n\nThis research results point at previously
  not recognised changes in potters’ chaîne opératoires\, but also patt
 erns of regional strategies showing great persistence. Communities in the 
 heart of the Congo Basin showed less shifts in potting strategies than tho
 se at the western or north-eastern parts. The novel results presented duri
 ng this lecture offer a first glimpse into resilience and shifts in the so
 cial fabric of pottery producing communities living in the equatorial rain
 forest of the Congo Basin.\n\nTo attend the talk online: https://teams.mic
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LOCATION:Garrod Seminar Room\, MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Rese
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