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To continue the thread on color in archaeological materials:
An interesting new tool that might help standardized colors is the "Eye One"
system I came across looking for Munsell information (1-800-MACBETH it
states in the Soils book now Blue so it won't be lost perhaps. It used to be
brown). It is a USB plug-in small handheld spectrometer for reading colors
(the software is free) from any source (to calibrate colors on a computer
monitor) or swatches, it shows. I wonder how well it would work with
ceramics and other materials. From the brochure, it seem it would work and
very sensitive.
www.gretagmacbeth.com or www.i1color.com
I found out that the standard "color chip" book archaeologists use (and soil
scientists) can also be used for skin, hair and eye color! Perhaps used by
forensic anthropologists and coroners? I once insisted that the coroners
office be called at Sackett's Harbor, NY as it's the "law of the land" in
most US counties that one call them when human bone is found, in case they
have a case file on the location. They let us go and volunteered to work for
pay on weekends there. We didn't really dig anything up (with one of the the
editors of the AIA "Archaeology" magazine) but established presence and
absence. One condo had to be sacrificed. Happened waking up to the "monkey
brains" scene in one of the Indiana Jones. By the way, Harrison Ford,
"Indiana Jones" and other notable roles, was made a "Riverkeeper" of the
Hudson River yesterday and will be patrolling the "North River" or Hudson
River looking for sources of pollution as part of a federal program to
maintain the river's health and the communities along it.
George Myers
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