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Assessing the territorial influence of an Iberian worship site. The chemical characterisation of the terracotta from the Iron Age sanctuary of La Serreta

Ignasi Grau MiraGianni GallelloGianni Gallello

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TerracottaAlicanteArcheology060102 archaeologyTerritorial influence010308 nuclear & particles physicsmedia_common.quotation_subjectLa Serreta06 humanities and the artsLinear discriminant analysisWorship01 natural sciencesArchaeologyArqueologíaGeographyIron Agevisual_art0103 physical sciencesPartial least squares regressionPrincipal component analysisvisual_art.visual_art_medium0601 history and archaeologyIberian Iron Age sanctuaryTerracottamedia_common

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This paper presents the study of the prestigious terracotta votive figurines from the Iberian Iron Age sanctuary of La Serreta (Alicante province, Spain) composed of 174 items. Portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) was used to identify elemental markers that permit us to observe the differences between local and non-local terracotta figurines and furthermore to evaluate the geographical influence of the La Serreta sanctuary using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLSDA) statistical method was also used to classify the figurines of uncertain geographical origin. The resulting groups were related to typological and stylistic groups of figurines and the distribution in different sites in the region. Ignasi Grau acknowledges the financial support of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Project HAR2015-64601-C3-2-R). Gianni Gallello acknowledges the financial support of the Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEO project II/2014/077), the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad-Feder (Project CTQ 2014-52841-P and Project CTQ 2012-38635) and the European Commission (Project H2020-MSCA-IF-2015 704709-MATRIX).

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2017-06-01
10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.03.045http://hdl.handle.net/10045/65422