Iron Oxide (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J Andrew Darling. B. Sunday Eiselt. Rachel Popelka-Filcoff. John Dudgeon.

Iron oxides and other associated minerals (“ochre”) are among the most common pigments used by prehistoric North American populations, particularly in the Hohokam region of central Arizona where they were employed in mortuary rituals, as body paint, and to decorate pottery, basketry, arrows, and pictographs. This paper identifies the wide variety of iron-oxides making up Hohokam, O’odham and Pee Posh red paint (in O'odham, heḍt) and it considers how prehistoric artisans manipulated earthy,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John L. Brumley.

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