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DOCUMENT Full-Text Lindsay Shepard. Aaron Wright.

As the emphasis on preservation archaeology increases, the application of non-destructive technologies to artifact analysis is becoming more relevant and commonplace. We employ three such techniques, decorrelation stretch (DStretch), x-ray fluorescence (XRF), and Fourier-transform Raman spectroscopy (FT-Raman), to investigate multiple paint hues found on a single pre-Classic Hohokam Red-on-buff sherd. We apply DStretch to visually enhance the paint and confirm the presence of two red hues. The...