
“Other authors point out that symbolic and utilitarian functions are intimately linked among traditional populations,” wrote D’Errico and his colleagues, “and that, as a result, it would have been difficult for a systematic use of ocher powders to exist over a long period of time without a symbolic dimension being rather quickly attached to it.”
Tens of thousands of years later, without direct evidence, all we can do is speculate. Which, to be fair, is tremendously…

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