Ochre: The World's First Red Paint

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 17:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Artists have used ochre — a naturally occurring pigment that has hues ranging from yellow to red to purple-brown — to paint for hundreds of thousands of years.

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