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This chapter explores some of the means by which ethnoarchaeology can help to address archaeological problems about settlement. Serowe is the capital of the largest of eight Setswana-speaking tribes in Botswana, the Bamangwato. The Bamangwato of Serowe have a hierarchical political structure that remains operative despite the adoption of the British system of local government at Independence in 1966. The pattern of a horseshoe-shaped structure holding something at its centre is repeated at three distinct levels of Bamangwato settlement architecture. The hearth structures of the Basarwa who live on the edge of Serowe often consist of crescents of planted euphorbia. It explores some of the ways in which ethnoarchaeology can be used to address archaeological problems about settlement. Ethnoarchaeology can be used as a generator of ideas, in the same way that it was used in the chapter in the application of the results of ethnoarchaeological research to the Epipalaeolithic site of Moita do Sebastiao in Portugal.
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