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How people used ochre at Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa: Sixty thousand years of evidence from the Middle Stone Age

We describe colour, hardness, grain size, geological type and surface modifications of ochre pieces excavated, first by Malan and later by Harper, from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Rose Cottage Cave, 96, 000 to 30, 000 years ago. Soft, bright-red shales are abundant, and most ochre has clayey or si...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Hodgskiss, Tammy, Wadley, Lyn
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5405984/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28445491
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176317
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