A red ochre dot may include the oldest, most complete print from our ancient relative Multispectral photography of 43,000-year-old red pigment on a rock in Spain revealed an embedded fingerprint.

A diver from Centro Investigador del Sistema Acuífero de Q Roo (CINDAQ A.C.) examines the oldest ochre mine ever found in the Americas, used 10,000-12,000 years ago by the earliest inhabitants of ...

Francis Scardera found the red ochre-streaked rock face along the Indian River drainage system in upstate New York. He says it is a prehistoric work of art, which, in North America, means it dates ...

Fingerprint made by Neanderthal 43,000 years ago could be world’s oldest portrait - Ochre mark is thought to be oldest complete fingerprint ever found and may suggest Neanderthals were capable ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that people were using red ochre in West Africa during the Middle Stone Age. Dated to between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, the rust-colored ...

First discovered in 2010, the ‘Red Lady of El Mirón’ is an ochre-coated skeleton that provides a glimpse into human life following the last glacial maximum some 21,000 years ago. A new study ...

A small stone flake marked with intersecting lines of red ochre pigment some 73,000 years ago that was found in a cave on South Africa's southern coast represents what archaeologists on Wednesday ...