The world’s oldest mine has been discovered in southern Africa by bombarding ancient materials with neutrons inside the ...

The analyses of the largest study on ochre extraction in Africa also show the spread of ochre to nearby areas / publication ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. 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, ...