medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> As to red ochre, it is little questions like this that send me flying to see what I can find. I have a
> copy of the textbook used in mortuary college and unfortunately someone tore off the last part of
> the index. But in the section on the middle ages embalming practices, I find that one chemical
> sometimes used in the embalming unguents was ferrous oxide which is really what gives the red
> color to red ochre (the clay).
I seem to recall that there have been Neanderthal burials discovered in which the
body was prepared for burial by painting it with red ochre -- the earliest known
evidence for painting, by the way -- body painting, at that!
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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