Ocher continued to be used as a pigment throughout antiquity and was even used by artists in medieval times and the Renaissance, as well as in modern times, Pettitt said.

At her cabin in the woods of Washington, Heidi Gustafson is creating a many-colored library of one of mankind’s first pigments. By Alex Ronan Heidi Gustafson has Whidbey Island’s Double Bluff ...

A study led by Rimtautas Dapschauskas found evidence that humans were using ocher pigments at sites across southern and eastern Africa between 500,000 and 330,000 years ago, according to IFLScience.

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The pigment yellow ocher is known for its ability to change to a reddish hue when subjected to intense heat, a transformation that could feasibly occur during a volcanic eruption.

Unlike ocher and realgar, which occur naturally, Egyptian blue is a synthetic pigment produced by firing a mixture of silica, limestone and minerals containing copper and sodium carbonate at high ...

Researchers theorize that an adult male dipped his finger in red ocher and intentionally used the pigment to complete the face he saw on a small granite stone ...

73,000 years ago, someone drew a cross-hatch pattern in ocher on a stone flake. 73,000 years ago, ... curved face using an iron-rich pigment called ocher.

Archaeologists in Rome have discovered beautiful, ancient paint—but not just any paint. Known as “Egyptian Blue,” it’s among the oldest synthetic pigments in the world, with the newly ...

A study by Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Paris published in the International Journal of Osteoarcheology has investigated the link between ocher burials and chronology, age, sex mobility and funerary ...