Though many European Upper Palaeolithic sites document early examples of symbolic
material expressions (eg, cave art, personal ornaments, figurines), there exist few reports on …

Adhesive production is one of the earliest forms of transformative technology, predating
ceramics and metallurgy by over 150,000 years. The study of the adhesives used by …

The use of mineral pigments, specifically iron-oxide rich mineral pigments called ochre, has
been put forward as a key element in the development of symbolic and non-utilitarian …

The use of red iron‐based earth pigments, or ochre, is a key component of early symbolic
behaviours for anatomically modern humans and possibly Neanderthals. We present the …

This article offers some hypotheses to explain Later Stone Age lithic miniaturization: the
systematic creation of small stone flakes on the finest-grained materials. Fundamentally, this …

The use of iron pigments is well documented in the archaeological horizons of the different
parts of the world since the Middle Pleistocene. The mineralogical and chemical …

Ochre has been used for a variety of cultural items worldwide including its use as pigments,
polishing tools, medicines, and formal lithic tools such as axes and plummets. Though ochre …

Abstract A complete Middle Stone Age ochre piece was unintentionally collected and fully
preserved within a micromorphological block sample intended to characterise a 74±3 ka …

Prehistoric archaeology has demonstrated that a preference for the colour red has been a
persistent feature of human cultures since around 200,000 years ago. Using microscopic …

This ethnoarchaeological study investigates the grinding and use of minerals, specifically
ochre, within the Hamar agro-pastoralist group in the Omo Valley, southern Ethiopia …