Eilinen Stadissa luuhaaminen ja kotiin yksin jättäminen hyvitetty Laikalle luuhaamalla sen kanssa pitkin Porvoota kolme tuntia.

Ei. Ei ole verta tassuissaan. Se on sitä semmosta esim. Vanhalle Porvoolle tyypillistä asiaa nimeltään #punamulta.

#RedOchre #lenkillä #koira #koirat #dog #dogs #dogstodon #DogsOfMastodon #tassu #tassut #paw #paws

Oh this is special, a documentary film on the 16,000 year-old record of human use of #redochre on the N American continent (Sunrise, Wyoming).

#Blood-red #pigment is very precious to us, it is the hallmark of human #symbolic culture, taken all around the world as #Homosapiens migrated. The #African record of ritual use goes back half a million years (the Zambian dates at Twin Rivers referred to here are NOT the oldest, I think it's an error of ill-informed AI).

Our very own Ian Watts researched the very oldest cosmetics of humankind at Wonderwerk (Northern Cape, S Africa). I post his paper 👇

#archaeology #anthropology #culture

https://aeon.co/videos/at-a-prehistoric-pigment-mine-researchers-glimpse-our-earliest-moments-in-the-americas

Red ochre was gold!

Major study on Lion's Cavern, the world's 'oldest ochre mine' in #Eswatini

'The researchers analyzed 173 samples from 15 Stone Age sites and reconstructed methods of ochre extraction, the use of ochre, and transportation networks, considering local strategies and long-distance exchange. The results point to an intergenerational transmission of knowledge, combined with social exchange and technological learning. Moreover, the team of scientists identified the “Lion Cavern” in Eswatini as the oldest known ochre mining site in the world, dated to around 48,000 years ago.'

#redochre #Africa #MiddleStoneAge #archaeology

https://www.senckenberg.de/en/pressemeldungen/the-lions-den-use-of-ochre-48000-years-ago/

And this one is about the genuine #PanAfrican #Revolution -- the revolution that made us #human.
Camilla Power and Ian Watts discuss when exactly was it? How do we know?

#MiddleStoneAge #Pleistocene #Homosapiens #archaeology #redochre #ritual

https://vimeo.com/878201598

Archaeologists reveal evidence of British festival held 6,500 years ago | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/river-eden-body-paint-festival-archaeology-b2397317.html

#Archeology
#Britain
#ThePaintedOnes
#BodyPaint
#Art
#Mesolithic
#RedOchre
#Neolithic
#Prettanike
#Celtic
#Pretani
#PaintedPeople
#Scotland
#Picti
#Picts

"#Redochre—Fe2O3—is a simple compound of iron and oxygen that absorbs yellow, green and blue light and appears red. It’s what makes red paint red. It’s really cheap because it’s really plentiful. And it’s really plentiful because of #nuclearfusion in #dyingstars."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/barns-are-painted-red-because-of-the-physics-of-dying-stars-58185724/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=792023&utm_content=archival&fbclid=IwAR2AXBIDPDF9m7j8Z8_b_3ppjyHAK33LBJU7b9R3jW5boIyKZhUpJYdcqLs

For more #Fediscience of the #HumanRevolution see this 🧵 👇 👇

Our first proper 🧵on Mastodon today!
And it's a biggie! When and where did symbolic culture (ritual, art, language, well everything) emerge in the human lineage?

This question lies at the ❤️ of @RadicalAnthro 's research for 30 years. An exciting new paper from a team @ROCEEH (Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans) promises some answers.

#redochre #MiddleStoneAge #symbolicculture #ritual #humanorigins

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-022-09170-2

This paper of Dapschaukas et al just published on the #PanAfrican #MiddleStoneAge record of #redochre is very important for giving us a date for the emergence of habitual #ritual #tradition. It comes in at 160,000 years ago.

In other words it is telling us about the #human #symbolicrevolution and its relationship to our #speciation.

We will do a full 🧵 on this soon because the paper bears strongly on RAGs main theory: the #FemaleCosmeticCoalitions hypothesis

#symbolism #language #ritual #revolution #HomoSapiens
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-022-09170-2