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Central section of Marothodi. The squares indicate the two homesteads with the excavated middens. Map: M. Siteleki.
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Among Simon Hall’s influential contributions to historical archaeology are two research agendas: the need to focus attention on lower scalar levels of analysis, and broadening the concept of ceramic style to include less visible technological qualities. The latter is of particular importance to the stylistically bland and less decorated assemblages...
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... lies on an open plain between the Pilwe and Matlapeng Hills (Fig. 2). Defence seems not to have been a concern. Before the Tlokwa ended up at Marothodi, they lived in the Pilanesberg before settling at Pilwe Hills, the predecessor to Marothodi (Boeyens & Hall 2009: 470). Marothodi was the Tlokwa capital between about 1780 and 1827 and home to 5 000-7 000 people at the time. The settlement was located in ...
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... This pilot study consisted of three steps, following previously established procedures Fredriksen and Lindahl 2023 The second step was the analysis of data from a handheld X-ray fluorescence (h-XRF) device. ...
Rogaland in southwest Norway was a core production area for bucket-shaped pottery throughout the ca. 200-year period spanned by these finds. Largely thanks to Elna Siv
Kristoffersen's work we have a well-developed understanding of the final century of this characteristic Migration Period find: certain ceramic craft networks rose to prominence, culminating in workshop milieux intimately tied to the formation of central places like those in Jæren, Rogaland from around AD 450/60, eventually making bucket-shaped pots alongside Style I metalwork. This inventive cross craft focus notwithstanding, we know less about the first century of production. A recent study suggests that the rise of the Jæren workshop milieux was concurrent with a gradual decline of the Augland ceramic workshop, related to the Oddernes elite milieu in Vest-Agder. Consequently, the areas around and between these two regional nodal points have come to be of particular interest. What happened to connectivity in this hinterland during the emergent first century of bucket-shaped ceramic production? This batch study identifies paste recipes and traces the movements of pots. Cognisant of the lack of comprehensive archaeometric studies, partly due to costs, we present a transferrable and relatively inexpensive approach that combines qualitative macroscopy with quantitative analysis of data from a handheld X-ray fluorescence (h-XRF) device.
