Ochre pigment was widely used in prehistoric rock art for its vivid red color, but little is known about how the paint was made. According to a study published November 19 in Scientific Reports that ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that people were using red ochre in West Africa during the Middle Stone Age. Dated to between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, the rust-colored ...

A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago. Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that time, and was used in everything from cave paintings to personal ...

Ochre was a reddish-brown pigment used in manufacturing paint, oil cloth and linoleum. The Spokane Ochre Mining Co. had purchased a property 19 miles northwest of Springdale, Washington ...