Word: ocherous
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...last summer when an expedition led by Solecki, who is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, found the dismembered skeleton of a small deer in a cave overlooking the Mediterranean. The 50,000-year-old bones had apparently been arranged in an orderly way and sprinkled with red ocher, a substance used for symbolic purposes by Neanderthal man. Reporting on the discovery last week, Solecki said: "These men were trying to ensure a successful hunt by the ceremonial treatment of one of the animals." In other words, Neanderthal man resorted to a form of hunter's magic...
...picture took six weeks to complete, from the first ink drawing on a gesso-covered wood panel to the final delicate strokes of ocher tempera. The result is a memorable portrait of a girl with a look-wary, contained, but challenging-that speaks of the courage and the ordeal of those who, in Frost's phrase, have taken the road "less traveled...
...Indians cooking, eating, smoking a pipe in full headdress. All the color footage seems to have been solarized; the effect is to remove most of the colors and warp the remaining two or three primaries, giving every frame an hallucinatory quality. Purple warriors move out to hunt against an ocher...
...centuries, the nomadic Masai tribesmen have loped like lions across their vast grazing plains near Mount Kilimanjaro, wearing nothing much more confining than a breechcloth of calico. Even in recent years, the Masai have continued to carry spears, smear their bodies with a red ocher pigment, hang weighty baubles in their pendulous ear lobes and quaff their favorite brew of clotted steer's blood, curdled milk and cow urine. Now Tanzanian President Ju lius Nyerere has decided that it is time for the Masai to pick up some civilized habits. In a policy designed to stamp out "ancient, unhealthy...
Brimstone has been a hot commodity ever since it was used to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Today the ocher-colored mineral is in greater demand than ever. This year's free-world production of sulfur, as the stuff is commonly known, will amount to 15.6 million tons, a critical 300,000 tons short of needs. In the U.S., which accounts for more than 50% of the output, once vast stocks have shrunk to a 35-year low, leaving the nation with a bare 15-week supply...