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keywords: ["Archaeology", "Sudan"]
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1\. Introduction
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# Introduction
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Ancient people used colour in their homes for many of the same reasons
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as people do today -- to lighten walls, to highlight important areas, to
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**~~Figure 1. Map of the Nile Valley showing locations of places mentioned
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in text.~~**
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2\. Ancient evidence
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# Ancient evidence
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Paints and pigments were found from all areas of the town of Amara West,
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in the form of lumps of raw pigment (red, yellow, blue), broken pottery
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**~~Figure 2. Fragment of painted wall plaster from house E13.7 at Amara West (F5049c).~~**
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3\. Ethnoarchaeology
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# Ethnoarchaeology
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Archaeological sites provide a huge amount of data about the tangible
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remains but it can be difficult to interpret these in terms of the human
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**~~Figure 3. House of one of the respondents. Interior (left) painted in red and yellow bombastic; exterior (right) mud plastered in a circular pattern and painted with yellow gir.~~**
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4\. Re-construction of ancient painting materials
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# Re-construction of ancient painting materials
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Various raw materials need to be collected and processed to make paint,
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and ancillary materials are also needed, for example, paintbrushes,
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wider interconnected taskscape, the "spatiotemporal layout of activity
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at a site"[^23].
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5\. Narratives
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# Narratives
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The archaeological evidence, information gathered from interviews, and
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experience of collecting materials and making paint have been combined
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else's turn and we will have the chance to help them and share their
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food.*
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6\. Conclusion
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# Conclusion
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Combining archaeological evidence, interviews of the current inhabitants
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of the area, and a re-creation of painting materials, allowed the
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homescape, the way the space is manipulated by the addition of colour
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(and other elements) to curate the house into a home within a community.
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**Acknowledgements**
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# Acknowledgements
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Research was conducted during a Collaborative Doctoral Award at UCL and
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the British Museum, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
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British Museum Amara West Project, funded by the Qatar-Sudan
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Archaeological Project, Leverhulme Trust, and British Academy.
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**References**
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# References
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Binder, Michaela. "The New Kingdom Tombs at Amara West:
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Funerary Perspectives on Nubian -- Egyptian Interactions." In *Nubia in
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