Stone age site in Germany yields Europe's oldest blue pigment, rewriting prehistoric art palette

The discovery changes everything we thought we knew about Palaeolithic pigment use in Europe, said archaeologist Wisher.
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Oldest Blue Pigment Reveals Ice Age Art May Not Have Been Just Red and Black 13,000 Years Ago

For fifty years, a small stone sat on display in a German museum. Catalogued in the 1970s as a simple “oil lamp” from the end ...