Sentences with phrase «naccho ochre»

But whereas Asmara is a bustling city of 650,000 filled with 1930s colonial Italian architecture, Bisha lies amid an expansive desert of rolling, ochre - tinged sand and scrub.

Plus, notes Sue Marks, CEO of Pinstripe and Ochre House, a global talent acquisition and management firm, you're probably going about hiring all wrong, too.

Charming colonial towns where cobblestone streets wind past centuries - old adobe buildings painted in rich sunburnt hues of ochre and yellow and brown and coral...

M ellow and glowing with autumnal red A nd also ochre striped with golden light, R epainted bedroom with a brand new bed L eft made up, crisp sheets awaiting night; O ld layers overlaid with something fresh, N ew, and sorting out, giving away, C lear for a different union of flesh A nd spirit, window to another day; L ife turns its wheel of change.

Abraham's knife gleams in the light of his candle, grimly against the dull chiaroscuro, the black, brown, and ochre of the rest of the scene.

I knew from that moment on I could only live in a place where leaves turn ochre and the rain turns everything blue.

This tangy and spicy, rich and earthy, quick and easy, and so beautifully ochre, onion tomato chutney moonlights as a gravy and sauce as well, and makes for a great accompaniment for dosas, idlis, appams, rice, pasta and chips or you could eat dollops of it just as it is.

This time around, the colors turned red and ochre, still the most incredible sunrises and the coziness of days that end in the early evening.

It is ochre - tinged by its two main ingredients — turmeric and cumin, and its color brings to mind the sand of South Africa's Karoo desert.

While it may not officially be Autumn for a few more weeks, there's been a definite nip in the air these last few mornings, our Summer garden is winding down, and the maples are becoming noticeably more colorful, painted with pretty shades of ochre and vermilion.

All my bamboo spatulas have now taken on an interesting yellow ochre hue.

Zoe Francois shares her favorite Thanksgiving traditions, including how to dress your table with autumn's reds, oranges and ochres.

This time around, the colors turned red and ochre, still the most incredible sunrises and the coziness of days that end in the early evening.Here...

This one still has plenty of butternut squash for its creaminess and ochre hues, but with the addition of leeks, pear and cranberries.

It is a drink fit for Midas, with an ochre colour so vivid it doesn't need an Instagram filter.

To the north the parkland and ochre - colored neoclassical buildings of central Sochi huddle around the port.

Earthy Burnt Ochre is this autumn's orange and sophisticated Stargazer continues the trend of turquoise, but with a deeper intensity.

The Emei Ikat Ochre teething pads are 100 % Organic Woven Cotton, reversible and free of potentially - dangerous chemicals and dyes.

For Fall / Winter 2016, Proenza Schouler showcased warm, buttery tones of ochre, brick and sable, along with some natural material accessories like leather.

The pebble appears to have been dipped into an ochre - based paint and used as a stamp on an unknown material.

In addition to studying ochre use in the Middle Stone Age, Ambrose is a leading expert in reconstructing the diet of Paleolithic people through chemical analysis of their remains.

«As soon as we could carry water with us, had a good [ochre - based] sunscreen and mosquito repellent, and warm [ochre - tanned] clothing, we were able to expand from Africa.»

A few thousand miles to the south and much earlier — about 100,000 years ago — people were using ochre in even more complex ways at Blombos Cave in South Africa.

«They use ochre for aesthetic as well as hygienic reasons,» says Rosso, who spent a few days among the Hamar.

Northern Cape, South Africa: Ochre fragments from a cluster of sites suggest the material was being collected as early as 500,000 years ago, though some researchers dispute the dates.

Ochre use became widespread in the Middle Stone Age, a period of about 50,000 to 280,000 years ago, and during this time, Hodgskiss says, «there seems to be a preference for red — a larger percentage of the ochre used was red.

An abalone shell and other ochre - related artifacts are among the many finds from Blombos Cave in South Africa.

But a range of other rocks appear in the archaeological record, from the yellow ochre goethite to the often - dramatic specular hematite, sometimes called specularite.

And we're not alone in the use of ochre.

Brooks, a senior researcher on the Olorgesailie project, describes two roughly finger - sized pieces of ochre that bear the marks of human alteration — and perseverance.

Ochre, which ranges in color from yellow to deep purple, has been favored by humans longer than any other pigment.

Instead, they believe ochre had a number of functional applications, some of which traditional societies, particularly in Africa and Australia, still employ.

That communication, or signaling, is what archaeologists and anthropologists call symbolic behavior, and it's why ochre use is often cited as a proxy for the cognitive ability of the people who used it.

«The use of red ochre as a sunscreen must have enabled humans to traverse longer distances without getting excessively sunburnt.

In addition to pieces of ochre that appear to have been engraved — the oldest such abstract art in the world — archaeologists have found tool kits that included abalone shells used as containers to mix ochre with crushed bone, charcoal, quartz and other material to make paint.

«Ochre is not one thing,» says archaeological scientist Andrew Zipkin of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

The vast majority of ochre used is no longer part of the archaeological record.»

«And ochre plays a central role in that debate.»

The new date is based on thousands of artifacts from the Northern Australia site of Madjedbebe, including numerous examples of ochre in ground, slab and «crayon» forms.

In addition to its use as a stand - in for charting human evolution, ochre also serves as a proxy for human movement.

New research points to humans in Kenya working ochre pieces more than 307,000 years ago at a site called Olorgesailie.

Olorgesailie, Kenya: Researchers recently discovered two pieces of ochre, intentionally shaped by humans, that were at least 307,000 years old.

Ochre reveals details about our ancestors» behavior, but could it have played a more active role in our evolution?

Ochre is most commonly defined by archaeologists as any iron - rich rock that can be used as a pigment.

In Ethiopia's Porc - Epic Cave, for example, Rosso and her colleagues have studied the largest ochre assemblage ever collected: more than 4,000 pieces weighing nearly 90 pounds in total.

«There are more things now that you can do with ochre than we ever thought possible.»

Confidently dated archaeological sites showing ochre worked by humans now go back more than 300,000 years, close to the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Notably, Brooks says, while ochre may have had practical applications, they were likely secondary to the material's symbolic use.

Indeed, different types of shells have been found with ochre at numerous prehistoric sites around the world.

But as archaeologists turn up evidence of functional uses for the material, they're realizing early humans» relationship with ochre is more complex.