Sentences with phrase «ochre use»

«Ochre use by definition is destructive,» Zipkin says.

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.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

«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.

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

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

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

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

Porc - Epic, Ethiopia: The largest collection of ochre pieces ever found, weighing nearly 90 pounds in total, includes a variety of tools to process and use the material 40,000 years ago.

The archaeological record suggests ochre had some other practical uses, turning up on tools and weapons.

While the Still Bay era is also characterised by highly innovative technologies — including engraving of ochre, use of personal ornaments, manufacture of highly stylised bone tools, heating silcrete (red rock) to produce better material for knapping bifacial points (spear points) using hard hammer and finally pressure flaking technology — the research team points out that HP's ecological niche expansion coincides with the development of technological innovations that were both efficient and more flexible than those of the Still Bay.

The earliest people at the site also used «huge quantities of ochre» and are the first humans shown to have used reflective mica to decorate themselves or rock walls.

The remarkable aspect of this find was uncovering two abalone shells used as vessels for the preparation of the ochre.

A team working at pinnacle point on the South African coast east of Cape Town reported evidence of the use of shell fish as a food source and the use of ochre for body decoration.

One of the Chinchorro methods used human - hair wigs and red dye made from ochre.

Cydnee is using Mac Pro Longwear Paint Pot in Soft Ochre ($ 22, nordstrom.com) as a base for her eyeshadow.

I use a MAC paint pot in soft ochre on my eyelids as a primer if I decide I'm wearing eyeshadow that day.

I decided to use Annie Sloan chalk paint «Old Ochre» for the graphic.

Indigenous Australians use ochre to add colour and detail to items such as this shield at the South Australian Museum.

Sharkskin was used for sanding, red ochre for staining, and abalone for inlay and embellishment.

As with Beach Villas, there is extensive use of local wood throughout, while sand and ochre colours mirror the views beyond the windows.

Day Three — Take a tour to the Ochre Pits to see the colours of ochre and learn about its traditional Ochre Pits to see the colours of ochre and learn about its traditional ochre and learn about its traditional uses.

Also, here's a list of the Prismacolor colors I used: - White - Black - Canary Yellow - Yellow Ochre - Poppy Red - Magenta - Raspberry - Sienna -LSB-...]

Use the yellow ochre pencil with a fine point to colour the indented line in the bottom right corner.

When I came here [to South Carolina] and beg [a] n studying with Jean Pilk, who had studied for years with Daniel Greene, [she] directed me to use a palette of Cadmium Red light with Yellow Ochre as a base.

His paintings employ a traditional technique used in the Chosun Dynasty (1392 — 1897) in which the pigments — in Ha's work, the ochres and dark umbers — are pushed through the weave of the burlap and eventually linen from the opposite side, and then trowelled with a palette knife on the frontal surface.

Although her work centers on black subjects, the artist makes skin color secondary to the psychological aspects of her sitters — her use of soft hues of yellow, ochre, red, and mauve express an intimate emotional sensitivity even when the figure is doing something as mundane as hanging out on a couch in their apartment.

For the first time Mangold was using more than one color in a single work and in highly unusual but effective combinations - aqua / grey / ochre; green / aqua / orange.

The number three often recurs throughout Sarmento's practice; in this exhibition it is manifest from his use of his three signature colours: yellow ochre, burnt sienna and grey, to the de-contextualised dialogue he creates via himself, Blanchot and Bataille.

In the Art in the Age of Altamira exhibition catalog, Jill Cook wrote that, after his cave visits, «Miró's preference for working off the easel on larger format works painted against a wall or on the ground, as well as his use of ochre pigments and earth tones developed.»

In the prehistoric period, the pigment of this particular color was extracted from ochre, a natural clay earth pigment, and was used for cave paintings.

The colors that I used are: Burnt Umber, Ivory Black, Cadmium Red Light, Yellow Ochre and Titanium White.

In the palette, notice that I'm not using pure white yet in the right hand well - just a touch of yellow ochre added to create warmth for the light shining on the pots.

Next, the flower pots have been added, using various mixes of burnt sienna, yellow ochre, brilliant red and the white.

«Generally, I use few colors,» he said, «yellow ochre, ver - million, orange, cadmium green, ultramarine blue.

Mainly I use each color as simply symbolic: ochre for the earth, green for the grass, blue for the sky and sea.

Sweeney [ph] used to think that I was so attached to yellow ochre because I grew up in California, which is very orange and yellow ochre uh, half the year.

Some of the colors he used were yellow ochre and umbers in the boy's hair.

«Harmonic Distortion» has worldwide environmental scope: marble clouds intricately patterned by wave formations; cyanotypes making apparent abstraction out of fifteen years of data showing that our cloud cover is reducing; a performance in which one woman is bound by another, Kinbakushi style, in state of the art fibre optic cable even as she tries to draw circles using the oldest of means — ochre pigment... So whether you wanted academic analysis, obsessive drawing burrowing into the psyche or the wide sweep of science and its consequent politics, you had them.

Nonetheless, the landscape of New Mexico is effectively conjured in the shimmering horizontal bands of ochres, pinks and myriad blues Martin began using following her move South in the 1970s.

While she has made colourful abstract works using the traditional medium of watercolour on paper, she has also applied her distinctive palette of muted greens, ochre tones and bright sherbets to a wide array of everyday, found objects such as hammers, bottles, knives, chairs, twigs, mobile phones and fragments of clothing.

These shades are repeatedly used throughout his oeuvre; as he commented, «There are certain colors that have become my colors; they're yellow ochre, black and white, a certain ultramarine blue (in fact some people in New York call it «Motherwell blue»)».

It is particularly noteworthy that Pasmore's use of the semi-circle in collages such as Abstract in White, Grey and Ochre, 1949 (Tate Gallery T00094), itself a possible reference to the Cubist depiction of guitars, is echoed in Frost's paintings.