Invasive and Non-Invasive Analyses of Ochre and Iron-Based Pigment Raw Materials: A Methodological Perspective

Seeing red: an analysis of archeological hematite in east central Missouri

(2020) Daniel E. Pierce et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Parent rock and climatic evolution control on the genesis of Ni-bearing clays in Ni-Co laterites: New inferences from the Wingellina deposit (Western Australia)

(2020) F. Putzolu et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

Paleoindian ochre mines in the submerged caves of the Yucatán Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico

(2020) Brandi L. MacDonald et al.   Science Advances

First large‐scale provenance study of pigments reveals new complex behavioural patterns during the Upper Palaeolithic of southwestern Germany

(2020) E. C. Velliky et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Characterization and sources of Paleolithic–Mesolithic ochre from Coves de Santa Maira (Valencian Region, Spain)

(2020) J. Emili Aura Tortosa et al.   GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

A Raman micro-spectroscopy study of 77,000 to 71,000 year old ochre processing tools from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

(2019) Marine Wojcieszak et al.   Heritage Science

Heat Treatment of Mineral Pigment During the Upper Palaeolithic in North-East Italy

(2018) G. Cavallo et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy confirm ochre residues on 71 000-year-old bifacial tools from Sibudu, South Africa

(2018) M. Wojcieszak et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age

(2018) Alison S. Brooks et al.   SCIENCE

Ochre and pigment use at Hohle Fels cave: Results of the first systematic review of ochre and ochre-related artefacts from the Upper Palaeolithic in Germany

(2018) Elizabeth C. Velliky et al.   PLoS One

Textural, microstructural, and compositional characteristics of Fe-based geomaterials and Upper Paleolithic ocher in the Lessini Mountains, Northeast Italy: Implications for provenance studies

(2017) Giovanni Cavallo et al.   GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

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

(2017) Tammy Hodgskiss et al.   PLoS One

Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave record

(2017) Daniela Eugenia Rosso et al.   PLoS One

Elemental fingerprinting of Kenya Rift Valley ochre deposits for provenance studies of rock art and archaeological pigments

(2017) Andrew M. Zipkin et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Geochemical and mineralogical fingerprints to distinguish the exploited ferruginous mineralisations of Grotta della Monaca (Calabria, Italy)

(2017) Luca Antonio Dimuccio et al.   SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

Procurement strategies of Neolithic colouring materials: Territoriality and networks from 6th to 5th millennia BCE in North-Western Mediterranean

(2016) Jean-Victor Pradeau et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Middle Stone Age Ochre Processing and Behavioural Complexity in the Horn of Africa: Evidence from Porc-Epic Cave, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

(2016) Daniela Eugenia Rosso et al.   PLoS One

Blombos Cave: Middle Stone Age ochre differentiation through FTIR, ICP OES, ED XRF and XRD

(2016) Stanley Moyo et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Ochre Provenance and Procurement Strategies During The Middle Stone Age at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa

(2015) L. Dayet et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Solutrean and Magdalenian ferruginous rocks heat-treatment: accidental and/or deliberate action?

(2015) Hélène Salomon et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

An LA-ICP-MS trace element classification of ochres in the Weld Range environ, Mid West region, Western Australia

(2015) Rachel Scadding et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Evaluating the Photoprotective Effects of Ochre on Human Skin by In Vivo SPF Assessment: Implications for Human Evolution, Adaptation and Dispersal

(2015) Riaan F. Rifkin et al.   PLoS One

Powder diffraction of yellow and red natural earths from Lessini Mountains in NE Italy

(2015) Giovanni Cavallo et al.   POWDER DIFFRACTION

Sourcing and processing of ochre during the late upper Palaeolithic at Tagliente rock-shelter (NE Italy) based on conventional X-ray powder diffraction analysis

(2015) Giovanni Cavallo et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Ochre fingerprints: Distinguishing among Malawian mineral pigment sources with Homogenized Ochre Chip LA-ICPMS

(2014) A. M. Zipkin et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Searching for consistencies in Châtelperronian pigment use

(2014) Laure Dayet et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

PIXE identification of the provenance of ferruginous rocks used by Neanderthals

(2014) François Mathis et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Technological successions in the Middle Stone Age sequence of Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa

(2013) Guillaume Porraz et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Ochre resources from the Middle Stone Age sequence of Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa

(2013) L. Dayet et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Geoarchaeological investigations at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa

(2013) Christopher E. Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Introduction to the project and excavation of Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa): a view on the Middle Stone Age

(2013) J.E. Parkington et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The MSA sequence of Diepkloof and the history of southern African Late Pleistocene populations

(2013) Guillaume Porraz et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Stratigraphic and spatial distribution of ochre and ochre processing tools at Porc-Epic Cave, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

(2013) Daniela Eugenia Rosso et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Elemental Analysis of Ochre Outcrops in Southern British Columbia, Canada

(2012) B. L. Macdonald et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

SELECTION AND HEATING OF COLOURING MATERIALS IN THE MOUSTERIAN LEVEL OF ES-SKHUL (c. 100 000 YEARS BP, MOUNT CARMEL, ISRAEL)

(2012) H. SALOMON et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

IDENTIFICATION, PROCESSING AND USE OF RED PIGMENTS (HEMATITE AND CINNABAR) IN THE VALENCIAN EARLY NEOLITHIC (SPAIN)

(2012) I. DOMINGO et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

OSL and TL dating of the Middle Stone Age sequence at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (South Africa): a clarification

(2012) C. Tribolo et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Silo science and portable XRF in archaeology: a response to Frahm

(2012) Robert J. Speakman et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Heat treatment in the South African Middle Stone Age: temperature induced transformations of silcrete and their technological implications

(2012) Patrick Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Use of red ochre by early Neandertals

(2012) W. Roebroeks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reflection infrared spectroscopy for the non-invasive in situ study of artists’ pigments

(2011) C. Miliani et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

ARTIFICIAL OR NATURAL ORIGIN OF HEMATITE-BASED RED PIGMENTS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS: THE CASE OF RIPARO DALMERI (TRENTO, ITALY)

(2011) S. GIALANELLA et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Geochemical characterization of ochre from central coastal British Columbia, Canada

(2011) Brandi Lee MacDonald et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Hematite sources and archaeological ochres from Hohokam and O’odham sites in central Arizona: an experiment in type identification and characterization

(2011) B. Sunday Eiselt et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The provenancing of ochres from the Neolithic Temple Period in Malta

(2011) Nicola Attard Montalto et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Technological, elemental and colorimetric analysis of an engraved ochre fragment from the Middle Stone Age levels of Klasies River Cave 1, South Africa

(2011) Francesco d’Errico et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Evaluation of relative comparator and k 0-NAA for characterization of Aboriginal Australian ochre

(2011) Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff et al.   JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY

Non-destructive provenance differentiation of prehistoric pigments by external PIXE

(2011) L. Beck et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2011) C. S. Henshilwood et al.   SCIENCE

PIXE characterisation of prehistoric pigments from Abri Pataud (Dordogne, France)

(2011) L. Beck et al.   X-RAY SPECTROMETRY

Pigments from the Middle Palaeolithic levels of Es-Skhul (Mount Carmel, Israel)

(2010) Francesco d’Errico et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Cemented ash as a receptacle or work surface for ochre powder production at Sibudu, South Africa, 58,000 years ago

(2010) Lyn Wadley   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The pigments from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B, Western Cape, South Africa

(2010) Ian Watts   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The Guelph PIXE software package IV

(2010) J.L. Campbell et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

(2010) J. Zilhao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Petrologic analysis of mineral pigments from hunter-gatherers archaeological contexts (Southeastern Pampean region, Argentina)

(2010) Alejandra Matarrese et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Argentinean prehistoric pigments’ study by combined SEM/EDX and molecular spectroscopy

(2010) L. Darchuk et al.   SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

THE ORIGIN AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF RED OCHRES FROM THE TITO BUSTILLO AND MONTE CASTILLO CAVES (NORTHERN SPAIN)

(2008) E. IRIARTE et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Chemical analyses of the earliest pigment residues from the uttermost part of the planet (Beagle Channel region, Tierra del Fuego, Southern South America)

(2008) Dánae Fiore et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Elemental analysis and characterization of ochre sources from Southern Arizona

(2007) Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE