Three reds : cochineal, hematite, and cinnabar in the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world / Claudia Brittenham -- Red at court : did the Maya at Bonampak know cochineal? / Mary Miller -- The politics of ...

Everyone knows the feeling—the unexpected prick, mild at first, then sharper; the itchiness and swelling that follow, redness spreading on skin. A meeting of species, one a mere blip in the ...