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Roughly 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man dipped his finger in red ocher and painted a nose on a rock that looked like a human face.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2025
Inside the remnants of workshops, the archaeologists recovered an amphora containing yellow ocher and small jars filled with reddish pigments like realgar and red ocher.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
Behind his left shoulder was a charm made up of 29 iridescent sunrise tellin shells, a lump of red ocher and a fish bone tool used to scratch designs into human skin.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
But Taylor makes Hammons even more remarkable, taking Hammons back to his symbolic roots — in front of the red ocher facade of the Great Mosque at Djenné in Mali — with a grinning hyena nearby.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2025
Inside the remnants of workshops, the archaeologists recovered an amphora containing yellow ocher and small jars filled with reddish pigments like realgar and red ocher.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
Behind his left shoulder was a charm made up of 29 iridescent sunrise tellin shells, a lump of red ocher and a fish bone tool used to scratch designs into human skin.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
But Taylor makes Hammons even more remarkable, taking Hammons back to his symbolic roots — in front of the red ocher facade of the Great Mosque at Djenné in Mali — with a grinning hyena nearby.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
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“Red ocher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/red%20ocher. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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