Parpalló Cave a rich source of complex #ochre processing
'artefacts used to process colouring materials, such as grindstones, palettes, containers, and other ochre-stained artefacts from Upper Palaeolithic contexts have rarely been the primary focus of systematic studies. ...we present the first results of the use-wear analysis of pigment processing tools found at Parpalló Cave'
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X26001896
OMG 49000-yr-old mix of #ochre and antelope #milk for paint at #Sibudu
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131273
okay, so my painting app has a name now... https://ochre.art
I'm going to update this website as development progresses further and I get ready to open a private beta later this year
Ochre is designed with useful tools and quality of life features that production artists and illustrators need in their daily workflows; as an artist myself, the status quo isn't providing this right now, and I want to fix this
Ochre will be —
- focused on pure digital painting
- available on Windows, macOS and Linux
- not dependent on the internet
- forever without GenAI or similar
- reasonably priced and free from subscriptions
Ancient Finnish graves reveal how ochre signaled identity and social networks
About 5,500 to 6,000 years ago, hunter-fisher-gatherers lived across what is now Finland. These communities, known to archaeologists as the Typical Comb Ware culture, built semi-subterranean houses, traveled along waterways, and relied on fishing, hunting, and small-scale plant use. They...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/finnish-graves-ochre-signaled-identity/
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #huntergatherer #anthropology #ochre
A stupendous new #ochre #burial from Grotta del Romito (Papasidero, northern Calabria, Italy) of a girl, approximately 11–12 years of age, associated with an archaeological layer dated to 16,129 ± 100 uncal BP (19,809–19,157 cal BP, 2σ), corresponding to the evolved phase of the local Epigravettian culture.
Romito 9 presents a richly furnished burial, featuring the use of red ochre and abundant ornamentation
#archaeology #UpperPalaeolithic
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618225003635
Top stories include the #Neanderthal micoquian #ochre (not all red!) and their #fat factories.
Yes Neanderthal women would have been much involved with special repro energetic needs.
https://scicomm.plos.org/2025/12/19/top-stories-in-human-evolution-of-2025/
#Ochre is somehow incredibly frustrating as a musical artist. Many of his tracks are a bit meandering, academic, or like someone just enjoys punching a few bits and pieces together on a #modularSynth without really evaporating in a story.
And then you stumble across a track like Suspension.
What a beautiful, evocative, unique piece of #electronicMusic. Dare I say even catchy. Truly wonderful.
SW China funerary #ochre record of the terminal #Pleistocene.
This correctly refs article by our colleague @ochrewatts on the oldest anthropogenic ochre use up to half a million years ago in S Africa.
Although archeological findings have suggested the long history of ochre exploitation by humans, the cultural implications of prehistoric funerary ochre remain unclear due to a lack of in-situ preservation consisting of ochre, artifacts, and human skeletons. This paper aims to investigate how humans in southwestern China interacted with ochre minerals in the terminal Pleistocene. We collected a set of red remains from the Qingshuiyuan Dadong site, dating to ca. 11 cal ka BP, which have been identified as hematite using multiple geochemistry techniques. Combined with microscopic observation of grave goods and ethnographic investigations, our study suggests that the ochre was consciously applied to stone artifacts and placed in burials as a possible component of funerary rituals at that time. By further integrating their archeological context, we inferred the use of ochre could be a cultural link in a broader regions.
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