Mineral Monday is a weekly video series exploring the many amazing minerals, fossils, and historic objects on display at the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum as told by museum ...
The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues ...
In a “ground-breaking” study, researchers have identified a “ vivid blue mineral pigment azurite” on a 13,000-year-old stone in Germany, according to a Sept. 29 news release from Aarhus University.
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Oldest Blue Pigment Reveals Ice Age Art May Not Have Been Just Red and Black 13,000 Years Ago
For fifty years, a small stone sat on display in a German museum. Catalogued in the 1970s as a simple “oil lamp” from the end of the Ice Age, it drew little attention. But when archaeologists looked ...
Using advanced imaging techniques and chemical analysis, the researchers found that the substance uncrushed on the stone was azurite, a deep-blue copper mineral formed by weathering of copper ore. The ...
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These Archaeologists Set Out in Search of Animal Fat. Instead, They Found the Oldest Blue Pigment Ever Discovered in Europe
Blue residue on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact, long believed to be an oil lamp, may paint a new picture of Paleolithic art ...
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