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red ocher

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red ocher [′red ′ō·kər]
(inorganic chemistry)
(mineralogy)

red ocher
A mixture of hematites; any of a number of natural earths used as red pigments.


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One of the graves, at Russia's 24,000-year-old Sunghir site, contains a boy and a girl buried head to head, dusted in red ocher, and ornamented with thousands of ivory beads, fox-teeth pendants, and pierced antlers.
He touched the elkskin pouch at his waist in which he carried a horn cup of red ocher mixed with fat.
A simpler explanation for ancient humans' use of red ocher might be cosmetics, much as in modern mortuary practice ("Stone Age Code Red: Scarlet symbols emerge in Israeli Cave," SN: 11/1/03, p.
 
 
 
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