Sulawesi, IndonesiaFragment of Pig Deer and hand stencil.It is supposed that the color red relates to blood’s being associated with life and death or menstruation and fertility. Henshilwood said, comes from the large amounts of the predominantly red material found at a number of African sites as old as 160,000 years.
The assumed symbolic role of red ocher, Dr. The Blombos discovery, not only of elaborate ocher processing but also of its mixture with marrow fat to produce a paint, rather than with plant resin to produce a mastic, argues strongly for its symbolic function,” Dr. Traces of ocher were left on the tools, and samples of the reddish compound were collected in large abalone shells, where the paint was liquefied, stirred and scooped out with a bone spatula. This was blended with the binding fat of mammal-bone marrow and a dash of charcoal.
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