Breaking news from the prestigious academic journal Science: An ochre-processing
workshop has been discovered in South Africa, having been dated as approximately 100,000
years old—pretty old, yet pretty cool. Ever dedicated and hardworking archaeologists have made
an exciting new find that may shed light on our earliest ancestors and how they lived; it may turn
out that our old ancestors, our paleontological equivalents, the ancient Homo sapiens may have
lived in a world full of tools, gadgets and make-up after all—you read that right, make-up. What
women, celebrities and other make-up enthusiasts adorn today, at time far in excess, our ancient
ancestors too extracted, cultivated, manufactured and adorned, for very similar reasons. Ochre?
What’s that you ask?
Let’s switch to science speak (I’ll let you know when we’re done). Get those
brains ready, for we’re about to delve into the archaeological equivalent of the dawn of time. The
definition used to describe ochre used by archaeologists, the guys that dig up rocks out of the
ground and spend years staring at rocks and mummies, is “an earth or rock containing red or
yellow oxides or hydroxides of iron”, such as for example ferruginous silstone (Henshilwood et
al, 2011). Basically a rock-like substance that is yellowish or reddish. Through archaeological
research it has been found that during the middle stone ages, beginning about 280,000 years ago
and ending 25,000 - 50,00 years ago, ochre was used as a way of expressing symbolic gestures
and things, and to decorate clothing (Henshilwood et al, 2011). In other words, during those
middle stone ages, ochre was used to colour clothing (or leotards), armour and to decorate
bodies—the equivalent of ...
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...gine a caveman making
that iPhone or Notebook—such a feat is more likely than you can imagine.
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