When the Great Pyramid is reconceived as a national worksite where there are rosters and rations and rest days? Within the ...

In the case study discussed in this article, the objective of the study was to gain better insights into ochre use by Middle Stone Age populations in East Africa through the analysis of 4213 pieces of ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced ...

Roughly 5,500–6,000 years ago, the area including present-day Finland was inhabited by hunter-fisher-gatherers living in ...

A recent study indicates that colour was not the only property of ochre relevant to people in the Stone Age. Ochre pigment. (Image: Katri Krohn ...

The pieces of pigment were discovered on opposite sides of the ancient lake in North Yorkshire. One of the ancient chunks of red ochre— a type of reddish-brown clay used by prehistoric people around ...

Ochre, an iron-rich rock, has been used as paint pigment by humans for hundreds of years in various applications, such as body paint, sunscreen and as a component in adhesives. Researchers have ...

In a recent study, an international team of researchers used luminescence dating and geochemical analyses to confirm the location of the oldest ochre mine in the world. It is located in the Lion ...

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A huge stash of reddish minerals from a cave in Ethiopia shows how Stone Age people gradually adapted their technologies and practices over a 4500-year period. “It’s one of the rare sites where we can ...