[SJackson]

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Top artist, maybe. Might suggest they were involved in the process. Of jewelry making, or dye or pigment making.

[SJackson]

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[BipolarBob]

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[Little Pig]

Women use all kinds of weird things as makeup. Are these researchers really sure that these women weren’t using some kind of lip makeup that involved ground lapis lazuli?

[blueunicorn6]

They were drinking blue Gatorade?

[VietVet]

Why is this a surprise? She was probably a nun, the story says. Convents as well as monasteries had scriptoriums. Around 1000 AD these book writing/copying and binding shops were important work for religious orders. Someone had to be preparing the inks and pigments; in a convent, who else but a nun?

[Bonemaker]

I thought this going to be about Hillary and Monica.

[ifinnegan]

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Fascinating.

[capydick]

Typically, male monks have gotten most of the credit for working on such texts

Another example of toxic masculinity!

[TexasGator]

Recycled article

[Openurmind]

Thank you. I actually READ this earlier this morning. lol

What I found just as interesting as the fact their were women scribes, is how extensive this particular tint and source was actually used. Pretty incredible history for a rock. :)

[jy8z]

They couldn’t figure out the blue?

I would say that was the first ever blue tooth!!!

[LegendHasIt]

Powdered Lapis was used as eyeshadow by wealthy women for centuries.

[Beagle8U]

“They couldn’t figure out the blue. Scientists studying tartar from the teeth of medieval skeletons hoped to learn a thing or two of about diets of the Middle Ages. But when they put the teeth and jaw of one woman under a microscope, they were surprised to see hundreds of tiny flecks of blue, reports the BBC. After much sleuthing, they figured out that the blue came from lapis lazuli, a rare and expensive stone ground into powder to make dye for sacred manuscripts. Typically, male monks have gotten most of the credit for working on such texts, but the amount of lapis lazuli in the woman’s mouth suggests that she—and presumably other women—were also on the job. Researchers’ best guess is that the blue flecks ended up in her teeth because she kept putting the tip of her brush in her mouth, reports the AP.

“It’s kind of a bombshell for my field—it’s so rare to find material evidence of women’s artistic and literary work in the Middle Ages,” says Alison Beach of Ohio State University, a professor of medieval history and co-author of the report in Science Advances. Another possibility is that the woman breathed in the lapis lazuli, known as ultramarine in its powder form, while preparing it for someone else, notes the Atlantic.”

Yeah, the women weren’t artists or writers after all, just the ones forced to chew rocks for the men.