Until the Spanish discovered cochineals in the New World, harvesting and crushing parasitic scale insects that live on oak trees was the predominate means of producing high quality red dye. Early ...
Giaccai, Jennifer A. 2008. "Chromatographic and Spectroscopic Differentiation of Insect Dyes on East Asian Paintings." In Dyes in History and Archaeology 21. Kirby, J ...
Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...
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