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Porc-Epic Cave

Cave above Dire Dawa, eastern Ethiopia, holding about 40 kg of ochre, the largest Middle Stone Age ochre assemblage in East Africa.

Dated events and their evidence

• 43,000 BCE mainstream
  Ochre use begins, around or before 45,000 calibrated years ago source
• 38,000 BCE mainstream
  Ochre processing becomes intense; a sustained pigment-working tradition source

Where

9.5715° N, 41.8874° E

Sources

• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10491814/

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