The colors on these ancient pots hint at the power of an empire — ScienceDaily
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 12, 2023
Color plays a huge role in our lives -- the hues we wear and decorate with are a way for us to signal who we are, where we're from, and what we care about. And it's been that way for a long time. In a new study in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, archaeologists compared the colors on pieces of ancient Peruvian pottery. They found that potters across the Wari empire all used the same rich black pigment to make ceramics used in rituals: a sign of the empire's influence.
