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 title: "The use and experience of painting materials in ancient and modern Nubia"
 authors: ["katefulcher.md"]
 abstract: Homes in Nubia are decorated by their inhabitants, using materials from the landscape around them. This has been the case for thousands of years. Taking the ancient town of Amara West (c. 1250 BC--800 BC) and the modern residents of its environs as a case study, the procurementand application of painting materials and its social implications are considered, using archaeological evidence and recently conducted interviews. The ancient evidence includes paint on walls, pigments, paint palettes, grindstones, and painted coffins, samples of which were scientifically analysed to determine the pigments and binders used. Twelve interviews were conducted via translator with modern residents living near to Amara West about their use of paint in their houses, including how they collected painting materials, when painting took place, and who was responsible. Several paints were re-created using tools and materials that were used by the ancient population in order to experience the process and consider it from a sensory perspective. Taking all of this evidence as inspiration, several fictional passages have been added to attempt to imagine ancient events relating to paint making and use.
-keywords: ["Archaeology", "Sudan"]
+keywords: ["Ancient Nubia", "paint", "colour", "ethnography", "Sudan"]
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 # Introduction

content/article/yvanez.md

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 unspecified number found in Houses I and VI. To our knowledge, it is the
 largest group of such implements ever discovered in Sudan and Nubia.
 
-Table 1. Summary count of loom weights per structure at Tila Island.
+![Summary count of loom weights per structure at Tila Island.](../static/images/yvanez/table1.jpg "Summary count of loom weights per structure at Tila Island.")
+**~~Table 1. Summary count of loom weights per structure at Tila Island.~~**
 
 As a whole, information related to textile production at Tila shows that
 spinning, weaving, and sewing were all practiced together within the
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 information, it was possible to locate most of the artefacts discovered
 during excavations, mainly along trenches and test pits:
 
-Table 2. Summary of textile tools per context, Meroe.
+![Summary of textile tools per context, Meroe.](../static/images/yvanez/table2.jpg "Summary of textile tools per context, Meroe.")
+**~~Table 2. Summary of textile tools per context, Meroe.~~**
+
+Table 2. Summary of 
 
 The Meroe spindle whorls form a homogeneous group made of well-burnished
 ceramic in conical or biconical shapes, with the upper surface almost

content/author/katefulcher.md

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 title: Kate Fulcher
-affiliation: University College London
+affiliation: Institute of Archaeology, University College London
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 # Biography
 
-Kate Fulcher is interested in ancient materials and practices, and heritage science. Her research has focussed on painting media, including pigments, binders, and varnishes, organic deposits from ancient Egypt and Sudan, and conservation practices in museums and in the field.
+Kate Fulcher has a background in Egyptology and conservation science. Her PhD was a study of painting materials from an ancient Egyptian town in Nubia (Sudan). She then did a post-doc at the British Museum in London on the analysis of the ritual black residue poured over ancient Egyptian coffins. Following that she held a position as Heritage Scientist at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, studying pigments in Byzantine and Japanese manuscripts. She is now a Lecturer in Conservation at UCL Institute of Archaeology.