#pigment — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pigment, aggregated by home.social.
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Scientists Recover Ancient Human DNA from Cave Walls
For the first time, researchers have extracted ancient human DNA directly from the walls of a cave. Although…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Altamira #AU #Australia #Cave #caveart #Cavepainting #CovaronCave #dna #EscouralCave #Figurativepainting #Homo #Homoneanderthalensis #Homosapiens #human #Iberia #Iberianpeninsula #MaltraviesoCave #Neanderthal #PAINTING #paintings #Pigment #Portugal #rockart #Spain
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This is so beautifully done:
> One #color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its #chemistry, and the people who paid for it in #poison.
> Every #pigment in this #catalogue has a paper trail. Where it was first ground, in whose workshop, on whose #canvas it dried, when it was banned, what replaced it. We do not invent provenance and we do not edit out the unflattering parts.