What were they doing with this ochre.

了解他们对这只赭石做了什么。

They used it for medicine because ochre fights bacteria.

他们把它当药用，因为赭石可以对抗细菌。

Ocher-it's among the earliest known pigments employed by humans.

那就是赭石，是人类使用已知最早颜料之一。

I love to think that this ochre was the beginning of the first artistic manifestations.

我喜欢把这只赭石看作是第一批艺术表现开始。

Scientists see evidence of that in a special kind of rock: ochre.

科一种特殊赭石上看到了有关这点证据。

Ochre refers to any rock rich in iron oxide that yields red, yellow, or brown pigments.

赭石是指任何富含岩石，能产生红色、黄色或棕色颜料。

But archaeologists have uncovered more advanced uses of ochre dating to around 100,000 years ago.

但是考古发现了更多赭石高级用途，可以追溯到10万年前。

From Mexico: In now flooded caves, researchers discovered the oldest known ochre mines in the Americas.

当前被洪水淹没洞穴中，研究人员发现了美洲最古老赭石矿。

He applauds researchers from CINDAQ who discovered an ochre mining operation, that started 12,000 years ago.

他对这些CINDAQ研究人员们表示赞许，因为他们发现了始于1。2万年前赭石采矿作业遗迹。

Most of the paintings were done with charcoal but for some, the prehistoric artists used red ochre.

大多数绘画都是用木炭完成, 但对一些人来说, 这些史前艺术们使用是红赭石。

And I was thinking, Well, maybe it's ocher.

我想，嗯，也许是赭石色。

Ocher—it's among the earliest known pigments employed by humans.

赭石——它是人类最早使用已知颜料之一。

The walls were painted a battleship gray and the floors a muddy ochre.

墙壁漆成战舰灰色， 地板漆成泥泞赭石色。

At a site known as Blombos Cave in South Africa, they found ochre-processing toolkits made of shells, stones and bones.

南非布隆伯斯洞穴，他们发现了用贝壳、石头和骨头制作一套赭石工具。

And underwater, the red light gets attenuated, so it looked kind of brown. And I was thinking, Well, maybe it's ocher.

红光水下会变暗，所以看起来有点像棕色。我当时想，这可能是赭石。

In a 2020 study, scientists used the Blombos Cave ochres to investigate how symbolic behavior may have evolved.

2020年一项研究中，科们利用布隆伯斯洞穴赭石来研究象征行为可能演变方式。

They also unearthed an engraved piece of ochre that is considered the oldest piece of abstract art in the world.

他们还出土了一块赭石雕刻品，被认为是世界上最古老抽象艺术作品。

In " Walkabout" , two children lost in the ochre outback contend with scorpions and snakes.

“Walkabout”中，两个迷失赭石内陆孩子与蝎子和蛇作斗争。

'If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out'.

“如果你想欺负我们， 就门口付你赭石， 然后把它拿出来” 。

These early artists mixed minerals, clay, charcoal, and ochre with spit or animal fat to create paint.

这些早期艺术将矿物、 粘土、 木炭和赭石与唾液或动物脂肪混合一起来创作颜料。