Large collections of archaeological spatiotemporal data can reveal past cultural and demographic trends, land use strategies, and processes of environmental adaptation. Within Africa, archaeological Big Data can contribute to the study of the spread of agriculture, domesticated species, and specific artefacts and technologies, as well as their ecological impacts. Although reviews addressing these topics are available for different parts of the continent, existing mid-late Holocene archaeology datasets have yet to be compiled into a central, open-access, standardized informatic-oriented dataset. Here we present Wanyika, a dataset of scientific dates from archaeological sites in eastern Africa spanning almost 7 millennia, from ~5000 BCE to 1800 CE. This dataset compiles published scientific dates and associated botanical, faunal, iron, and ceramic finds from sites in Kenya, Tanzania, the Comoros Islands, and Madagascar. The records also include data for megafauna extinctions in Madagascar. We describe the spatiotemporal coverage of the dataset, how the data were collected, the structure of the dataset, and the applied quality control measures.

Arne Faculty of Arts Masaryk University Nováka 1 602 00 Brno střed Czech Republic

Climate Change and History Research Initiative Princeton University Princeton NJ 08542 USA

Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 3302 WWPH Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA

Department of Archaeology Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology Kahlaische Strasse 10 07745 Jena Germany

Department of Bioarchaeology Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw Warszawa 00 927 Poland

Griffith Sciences Griffith University Brisbane Australia

Institute for Prehistory and Early History University of Cologne Weyertal 125 50931 Cologne Germany

School of Social Science The University of Queensland St Lucia QLD 4072 Brisbane Australia

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