Archaeological Artefact Database of Finland (AADA)

When you use this dataset, please also cite the following paper introducing it:

Petro Pesonen, Ulla Moilanen, Meeli Roose, Jarkko Saipio, Jasse Tiilikkala, Muhammad Usman Sanwal, Visa Immonen, Outi Vesakoski & Päivi Onkamo (submitted manuscript): Archaeological Artefact Database of Finland (AADA).

The database also includes a collection of photographs that are found in another Zenodo repository and should be referenced as follows: Moilanen et al. 2024. (Moilanen, U., Pesonen, P., Saipio, J., Tiilikkala, J., Sanwal, M. 2024. Archaeological Artefact Database of Finland (AADA)), photograph repository: https://zenodo.org/records/10417384

The AADA database is thematically organised into three MS Excel tables according to the prehistoric era: Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age periods. Each period contains both period-specific and general artefact categories and accordingly also period-specific and general variables(Table 1). The database is provided also as csv-files.

Table 1. The artefact categories included in the AADA database.

Each row in the table represents a single artefact, while each column represents a specific attribute, such as its type, period, site, and measurements. Pottery forms a different case as the material is not organised according to separate vessels (except pottery detailed in AADA Iron Age), but according to types/styles present in each collection main number. The detailed description of the data is found in the paper Pesonen et al. (2024).