New Book Chronicle: Scientific search for a colourful past
Journal: Antiquity
Year: 2025

Scientific search for a colourful pastThe remnants of the distant past are often dull in colour due to their age and state of preservation.Each Antiquity issue when the editorial team discusses possible cover images, a recurrent comment is: "Something less brown, please."This dullness of colour in artefacts and monuments inevitably creates negative and incorrect perceptions that the societies involved were similarly monotonous.Colour is important for understanding human history and plays fundame