Her long mannish face still glowed from beneath the skin, giving her a ripe ochre coloring.
Inside cupboard-sized shops, shelves are stacked with jars of ochre and purple powder.
Lovely colors abound: terra cotta, ochre, pink, white and yellow accented by gray, beige, black, green and brown shutters.
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These beads even bore traces of red ochre, used as a pigment.
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Behind him, the twisting green vines stretch out into the distance, their leaves tinged with gauzy mid-afternoon light, their stems rising up from a rich ochre-red soil.
Painter after painter capitulates to the allure of warm ochre-painted walls and ancient brick, umbrella pines and bare hills, revealed by low, diffused, golden light.
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Adorning their bodies with ochre and butter to protect their skin from the ferocity of the sun, they have spent centuries roaming the Skeleton Coast and nearby regions.
The entire village is washed in rich sunburnt shades of ochre, (a natural dye taken from the local soil, no other color is allowed for buildings).
For example, the ancient "painting kit" contained red ochre and was likely used as body paint, just as the Himba people of Namibia use it today.
Three hours from the capital, Muscat, are the vast ochre dunes of Sharqiya Sands, a landscape where Bedouin communities live much as they have done for centuries.
Other evidence of symbolic behaviour in Neanderthals includes the discovery of ochre - used to paint their bodies - at archaeological sites in Europe and the Levant.
In addition to the serenity and fresh air, the island is dotted with shops that sell distinctive Mon pottery, a pleasing ochre-coloured pottery that has its roots in present-day Myanmar.
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The Blombos cave and the Diepkloof rock shelter in South Africa have turned up ostrich shells and pieces of ochre with ornate markings that date back 60, 000 years ago.
The last significant mountains before the Sahara are the arid, pink-and-ochre-coloured chain of the Anti Atlas, and beneath the arid, jagged mass of its two major peaks lie lush irrigated valleys and a string of oases.
From the Colosseum, cutting across the ancient racecourse Circus Maximus, it is a wonderful stroll up the Aventino, one of Rome's seven hills, home to a dreamily upmarket residential district with deep-green trees shading its orange-ochre buildings.
Set around a rotunda that mirrors the gentle curves of the porcelain, the Korean collection is housed in an ochre building by architect Mario Botta with a turret and battlements--"Like a castle guarding traditional art, " says Park Min-sun, a Leeum spokeswoman.
But today, we are alone and as the late afternoon sun turns the dull brown mountains a richer, deeper shade of ochre it is time to head down and start the long drive back to Erbil and the complexities of modern Iraq.
Each day, when the first rays of sun warm its ochre walls, the doline comes alive with the sounds of the red-green macaw, as formations of these exotically-plumaged parrots dive and wheel below the lip, periodically alighting en masse to bicker, preen and survey their domain.
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