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Hi Ian,
I have conducted comparisons of phosphorus concentrations at 18th-century plantation sites in Virginia using pXRF and traditional wet chemistry for my Masters Thesis (available on academia.edu):
Wilkins, Andrew P.
2009 Identifying 18th Century Hidden Landscapes Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Phosphorus Readings on Plowzone Samples, Masters Thesis in Historical Archaeology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
I published the findings of the soil P and artifact distributions at the site in:
Wilkins, Andrew P.
2010 Elements of a Landscape: Soil Chemistry at Stratford Hall Plantation. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 26:155-164.
Shoot me an email and I can reply with a pdf of that if you like.
As you said, there's not much published from the US on XRF for interpretive soil chemistry, but I know a few others that are working with pXRF specifically, such as Claudia L. Brackett at California State University-Stanislaus.
Hope that helps, good luck!
Andrew Wilkins, M.A.
Doctoral Candidate
University of Tennessee
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