A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

Learn more about the colorful and shiny stones that were turned into tools as many as 40,000 years ago, which were sometimes sourced from afar.

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Namibia is a southwestern African nation roughly twice the size of California, known for having the world’s oldest desert.

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Ochre mines attracted many early cultures, who sought these materials for decorative, ceremonial, and practical purposes. Red ochre, which is colored red thanks to iron content, has been found in ...

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And for some reason, red ochre has been valuable to prehistoric people for hundreds of thousands of years. - Worldwide, we see the use of red ochre in early societies, as used as a symbolic material.