Ochre and the dawn of human culture | Tammy Hodgskiss | TEDxJohannesburgSalon

[@josiefield6940]

Well done my friend! Beautiful presentation and captivating talk. Big hugs xxx

[@Wickedcorrupt]

Just what I needed!! Thanks

[@grasshillfarm]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[@wishiwasamuffin]

I favorited this one for later. I'm just beginning to study/use ochre, and this was a fantastic overview of ochre and it's many uses and meanings. Cheers!

[@samchallis448]

Wish I had seen this before, I would have prescribed it in my World Hunter-Gatherers course (and you could've done a guest lecture!)

[@angeliquebougaard1185]

Fascinating!

[@nowaistedspace4946]

My guess, it was an everyday item used for hunting: stealth and camouflage, hides your scent, gets you closer to your prey.

[@DraftingandCrafting]

I have had the very same thought regarding camouflage for hunting.

[@tammyhodgskiss1951]

Yes, good point!

[@blackbird5634]

Former Yale prof of Art Alex Shundi said, that cave paintings were usually in the way back of the cave where the bats, bears and artists where shoved, where they imagined their world on the walls.

[@BeforeWarTheBook]

Nice, but left out some very crucial information. It was used in burials on every continent going back at least 100K years, and was often in the pelvic region, and often blood was used instead. This suggests a stand-in for menstrual blood. Plus, modern hunter-gatherers speak of it as such, like the Unthippa of Australia who said it came from the vulvas of their ancestors.

[@albertomartinez2479]

Is it possible that radioactive properties of Ochre aided our progress as a species, evolution wise?

[@tammyhodgskiss1951]

Ochre isn't radioactive luckily!

[@Findmylimit]

She hasn’t a clue what the heck she is talking about

[@tammyhodgskiss1951]

tell me why

[@Findmylimit]

@@tammyhodgskiss1951I was incorrect