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| | Stone Age Code Red: Scarlet symbols emerge in Israeli cave: Science News Online, Nov. 1, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Her argument hinges on the discovery of 71 pieces of red ocher, a form of iron oxide typically used as a pigment, as well as ocher-stained stone tools, near several of Qafzeh's oldest H. |
 | | In the August-October Current Anthropology, Hovers and her coworkers propose that, more than 90,000 years ago, lumps of ocher from nearby sources were brought to the cave, carefully heated in hearths to yield specific hues of red, and used with the shells in possibly symbolic activities related to burying the dead. |
 | | A simpler explanation for ancient humans' use of red ocher might be cosmetics, much as in modern mortuary practice. |
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