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1\. Introduction
# Introduction
Ancient people used colour in their homes for many of the same reasons
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
in text.~~**
2\. Ancient evidence
# Ancient evidence
Paints and pigments were found from all areas of the town of Amara West,
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).~~**
3\. Ethnoarchaeology
# Ethnoarchaeology
Archaeological sites provide a huge amount of data about the tangible
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.~~**
4\. Re-construction of ancient painting materials
# Re-construction of ancient painting materials
Various raw materials need to be collected and processed to make paint,
and ancillary materials are also needed, for example, paintbrushes,
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wider interconnected taskscape, the "spatiotemporal layout of activity
at a site"[^23].
5\. Narratives
# Narratives
The archaeological evidence, information gathered from interviews, and
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
food.*
6\. Conclusion
# Conclusion
Combining archaeological evidence, interviews of the current inhabitants
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
(and other elements) to curate the house into a home within a community.
**Acknowledgements**
# Acknowledgements
Research was conducted during a Collaborative Doctoral Award at UCL and
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
Archaeological Project, Leverhulme Trust, and British Academy.
**References**
# References
Binder, Michaela. "The New Kingdom Tombs at Amara West:
Funerary Perspectives on Nubian -- Egyptian Interactions." In *Nubia in