What were they doing with this ochre.

了解他们对这只赭石做了什么。

They used it for medicine because ochre fights bacteria.

他们把它当药用，因为赭石可以对抗细菌。

Ocher-it's among the earliest known pigments employed by humans.

那就是赭石，是人类使用已知最早颜料之一。

I love to think that this ochre was the beginning of the first artistic manifestations.

我喜欢把这只赭石看作是第一批艺术表始。

Scientists see evidence of that in a special kind of rock: ochre.

科家在一种特殊赭石上看到了有关这点证据。

Ochre refers to any rock rich in iron oxide that yields red, yellow, or brown pigments.

赭石是指任何富含氧化铁岩石，能产生红色、黄色或棕色颜料。

From Mexico: In now flooded caves, researchers discovered the oldest known ochre mines in the Americas.

在当前被洪水淹没洞穴中，研究人员发了洲最古老赭石矿。

He applauds researchers from CINDAQ who discovered an ochre mining operation, that started 12,000 years ago.

他对这些CINDAQ研究人员们表示赞许，因为他们发了始于1。2万年前赭石采矿作业遗迹。

Most of the paintings were done with charcoal but for some, the prehistoric artists used red ochre.

大多数绘画都是用木炭完成, 但对一些人来说, 这些史前艺术家们使用是红赭石。

But archaeologists have uncovered more advanced uses of ochre dating to around 100,000 years ago.

但是考古家发了更多赭石高级用途，可以追溯到10万年前。

And I was thinking, Well, maybe it's ocher.

我在想，嗯，也许是赭石色。

Ocher—it's among the earliest known pigments employed by humans.

赭石——它是人类最早使用已知颜料之一。

The walls were painted a battleship gray and the floors a muddy ochre.

墙壁漆成战舰灰色， 地板漆成泥泞赭石色。

And underwater, the red light gets attenuated, so it looked kind of brown. And I was thinking, Well, maybe it's ocher.

红光在水下会变暗，所以看起来有点像棕色。我当时想，这可能是赭石。

In " Walkabout" , two children lost in the ochre outback contend with scorpions and snakes.

在“Walkabout”中，两个迷失在赭石内陆孩子与蝎子和蛇作斗争。

'If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out'.

“如果你想欺负我们， 就在门口付你赭石， 然后把它拿出来” 。

But we're gonna go in with this dark shade, cypress umber, before we get to the actual black shade.

但我们将会先使用这种深色，柏树赭石色，在使用真正黑色之前。

Created using local ochres, and sometimes even blood, these artworks give an insight into the lives of Aboriginal peoples throughout the centuries.

这些画作以本地赭石绘制，有些甚至使用鲜血，您可以从中深入了解原住民数百年来生活。

These early artists mixed minerals, clay, charcoal, and ochre with spit or animal fat to create paint.

这些早期艺术家将矿物、 粘土、 木炭和赭石与唾液或动物脂肪混合在一起来创作颜料。

At a site known as Blombos Cave in South Africa, they found ochre-processing toolkits made of shells, stones and bones.

在南非布隆伯斯洞穴，他们发了用贝壳、石头和骨头制作一套赭石工具。