diff --git a/content/article/fulcher.md b/content/article/fulcher.md index 55df303..b75f2e2 100644 --- a/content/article/fulcher.md +++ b/content/article/fulcher.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ abstract: Homes in Nubia are decorated by their inhabitants, using materials fro keywords: ["Archaeology", "Sudan"] --- -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 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ the landscape, to decorate their houses. **~~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 @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ West.[^14] **~~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 @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ from a teapot. **~~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, @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ and children, and cleaning. The task of painting was part of a much 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 @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ is pleased with the effect the paint has had. Soon it will be somebody 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 @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ way a house is laid out and decorated could be referred to as a 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 @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ the British Museum, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council 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