Ceramic pots have long served a wide range of functions due to their favourable performance characteristics. While still used in some African societies today, their role has dramatically decreased over the past century, largely due to the spread of industrial containers such as plastic, glass, and metal. This study investigates a century of evolution of pottery use among the Jóola Kaasa people (Lower-Casamance, Senegal), using an ethnoarchaeological approach. The comparative study of ethnographic pots from the village of Edioungou (early twenty-first century) and archaeological pots from a disposal area (twentieth century) long used by the inhabitants allowed us to highlight diachronic changes in pottery and better understand their replacement by metal, glass and plastic containers. Results reveal uneven disappearance rates among vessel types, such as decreasing water transportation vessels, persisting fish cooking pots, and increasing palm wine serving vessels, showcasing that the process is far from linear. By putting research on the Jóola Kaasa village into perspective with the investigations carried out on other ethno-linguistic groups in Senegal, this study shows that the replacement of pottery by metal, glass and plastic containers is shaped not only by performance characteristics but also by economic, religious, cultural, and social factors. This work contributes to broader debates on material culture change and the replacement of pots with imported modern materials.