Provenance Study
/ pigment evidence
Chapter 03 · Page 14
Pigment makes provenance visible.
Takeaway
Records that name red-ochre and lime-white eye traces resolve with far less doubt.
Confirmed origin rate by cataloging depth
Before and after comparison: catalog notes reach forty-one percent confirmed origin, while pigment plus carving notes reach eighty-three percent.
100%
75%
50%
25%
Confirmed origin rate
41%
Catalog notes
object, material, place
83%
2.0× confidence
Pigment + carving notes
red-white eyes, slit, tusker motif
The eyes are data.
Red-ochre and lime-white traces
separate memory from guesswork.
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