Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites.

Numerous and extensive 'Stone Walled Sites' have been identified in southern African Iron Age landscapes. Appearing from around 1200 CE, and showing considerable variability in size and form, these settlements are named after the dry-stone wall structures that characterize them. Stone Wall...

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Autores: Biagetti, Stefano, Alcaina-Mateos, Jonas, Ruiz-Giralt, Abel, Lancelotti, Carla, Groenewald, Patricia, Ibáñez Insa, Jordi, Gur-Arieh, Shira, Morton, Fred, Merlo, Stefania
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Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Palabra clave:Botswana
Stone Walled Sites
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spelling Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites.Biagetti, StefanoAlcaina-Mateos, JonasRuiz-Giralt, AbelLancelotti, CarlaGroenewald, PatriciaIbáñez Insa, JordiGur-Arieh, ShiraMorton, FredMerlo, StefaniaBotswanaStone Walled SitesNumerous and extensive 'Stone Walled Sites' have been identified in southern African Iron Age landscapes. Appearing from around 1200 CE, and showing considerable variability in size and form, these settlements are named after the dry-stone wall structures that characterize them. Stone Walled Sites were occupied by various Bantu-speaking agropastoral communities. In this paper we test the use of pXRF (portable X-ray fluorescence analysis) to generate a 'supplementary' archaeological record where evident stratigraphy is lacking, survey conditions may be uneven, and excavations limited, due to the overall site size. We propose herein the application of portable X-ray fluorescence analysis (pXRF) coupled with multivariate exploratory analysis and geostatistical modelling at Seoke, a southern African SWS of historical age (18th century CE). The aim of the paper is twofold: to explore the potential of the application of a low cost, quick, and minimally invasive technique to detect chemical markers in anthropogenic sediments from a Stone Walled Site, and to propose a way to analyse the results in order to improve our understanding of the use of space at non-generalized scales in such sites.This research is funded by Fundación Palarq, calls 2019 and 2020, project ”Geo-EtnoArqueologia y uso del espacio (GEA)” entrusted to SB. SM and FM received financial support from the Office of Research and Development at the University of Botswana. The work of SGA was funded by the European Union’s MapDung project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No H2020-MSCA-IF-2017-794823. SB, JAM, ARG, CL and SGA are members of CaSEs Research Group of the Catalan Research Agency (AGAUR SGR-212), which is an associated unit (Unidad Asociada) to the Institucion Mila Y Fontanals of the Spanish Research National Council (CSIC). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublic Library of ScienceFundación PalarqUniversity of BotswanaEuropean CommissionGeneralitat de CatalunyaIbáñez Insa, Jordi [0000-0002-8909-6541]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202120212021info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/240915reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/H2020-MSCA-IF-2017-794823https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250776Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2409152026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites.
title Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites.
spellingShingle Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites.
Biagetti, Stefano
Botswana
Stone Walled Sites
title_short Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites.
title_full Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites.
title_fullStr Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites.
title_full_unstemmed Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites.
title_sort Identifying anthropogenic features at Seoke (Botswana) using pXRF: Expanding the record of southern African Stone Walled Sites.
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Biagetti, Stefano
Alcaina-Mateos, Jonas
Ruiz-Giralt, Abel
Lancelotti, Carla
Groenewald, Patricia
Ibáñez Insa, Jordi
Gur-Arieh, Shira
Morton, Fred
Merlo, Stefania
author Biagetti, Stefano
author_facet Biagetti, Stefano
Alcaina-Mateos, Jonas
Ruiz-Giralt, Abel
Lancelotti, Carla
Groenewald, Patricia
Ibáñez Insa, Jordi
Gur-Arieh, Shira
Morton, Fred
Merlo, Stefania
author_role author
author2 Alcaina-Mateos, Jonas
Ruiz-Giralt, Abel
Lancelotti, Carla
Groenewald, Patricia
Ibáñez Insa, Jordi
Gur-Arieh, Shira
Morton, Fred
Merlo, Stefania
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Fundación Palarq
University of Botswana
European Commission
Generalitat de Catalunya
Ibáñez Insa, Jordi [0000-0002-8909-6541]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Botswana
Stone Walled Sites
topic Botswana
Stone Walled Sites
description Numerous and extensive 'Stone Walled Sites' have been identified in southern African Iron Age landscapes. Appearing from around 1200 CE, and showing considerable variability in size and form, these settlements are named after the dry-stone wall structures that characterize them. Stone Walled Sites were occupied by various Bantu-speaking agropastoral communities. In this paper we test the use of pXRF (portable X-ray fluorescence analysis) to generate a 'supplementary' archaeological record where evident stratigraphy is lacking, survey conditions may be uneven, and excavations limited, due to the overall site size. We propose herein the application of portable X-ray fluorescence analysis (pXRF) coupled with multivariate exploratory analysis and geostatistical modelling at Seoke, a southern African SWS of historical age (18th century CE). The aim of the paper is twofold: to explore the potential of the application of a low cost, quick, and minimally invasive technique to detect chemical markers in anthropogenic sediments from a Stone Walled Site, and to propose a way to analyse the results in order to improve our understanding of the use of space at non-generalized scales in such sites.
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