Posted on 11/28/2008 9:15:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The color red, which represents luck, happiness and passion in China, could have been used in clothing 15,000 years ago...
The Xuchang ruins made headlines in foreign media in January when State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced that Chinese archaeologists had found a human skull dating back at least 80,000 years in the ruins last December...
[T]his month, their excavation team found from the soil strata dating back 15,000 years, or the late Paleolithic Era, at the Xuchang ruins more than 20 pieces of hematite, one of iron oxides commonly used as a dyestuff, alongside three dozen thin instruments made of animal tooth enamel, plus seven needles made of the upper cheek tooth enamel of a rhinoceros sub-species now extinct.
The ruins used to be the location of a lake where activities such as clothes making, food preparing, water drinking were clustered...
The Paleolithic site at Xuchang was discovered in 1965, when Chinese scientists found animal fossils and stone artifacts from soil dug for a well. The most recent large scale excavation started in June 2005.
The archaeologists declared in January this year that they found the fossil consisted of 16 pieces of the skull with protruding eyebrows and a small forehead from the excavation last December...
Besides the skull, more than 30,000 animal fossils, and stone and bone artifacts were found in the Xuchang ruins over the past two years. The pieces were fossilized because they were buried near the mouth of a spring, whose water had a high calcium content, according to Li.
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Damned commies for 15,000 years. ;-)
I was always taught that deep purple was the greatest color, reserved for royalty. IIRC, these colors were provided by the ink of sea urchins. Of course, this was before the founding of the band with the same name.
Indigo.
They used Whelks.
Murex Shells
Family: Muricidae.
There are 700 known species in this beautiful family of shells.
They are noted for their unique shape and curving spines.
The Mollusk is carnivorous and typically feeds on bivalves, shrimp, and sponge among other creatures of similar size.
They can be found in sand or mud flats, and on coral reefs.
When the frond-like spines are coated with sea moss, the shell may be completely camouflaged amid rocks or on reefs.
Interesting Facts: The crimson color of royal purple was created by the Phoenicians by using the Murex brandaris shell.
The rare and brilliant color was used by the emperors of Rome. At that time, the dye cost the equivalent of $10,000 a pound.
My woman from Tokyo always wore red.
Phoenicians wore purple-dyed togs. That’s why they were called Phoenicians.
Lydia from the Bible was a “seller of purple”, i.e. dyes and cloth. She was a wealthy widow and is thought to be the one who put the early church on firm financial footings.
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