Inside cave 13B at Pinnacle Point, an archeological site found on the coast of South Africa, paleoanthropologists in 2000 found evidence that, between 170,000 and 40,000 years ago, Late Stone Age people were scraping and grinding ochre, a clay colored red by iron oxide, probably with the intention of using it to color their bodies.[14]
Red hematite powder was also found scattered around the remains at a grave site in a Zhoukoudian cave complex near Beijing. The site has evidence of habitation as early as 700,000 years ago. The hematite might have been used to symbolize blood in an offering to the dead.[15]
Red, black and white were the first colors used by artists in the Upper Paleolithic age, probably because natural pigments such as red ochre and iron oxide were readily available where early people lived. Madder, a plant whose root could be made into a red dye, grew widely in Europe, Africa and Asia.[16] The cave of Altamira in Spain has a painting of a bison colored with red ochre that dates to between 15,000 and 16,500 BC.
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may is otherkin history month
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the way to solve this never-ending debate is to have a history month for every single color.
I like how they teach you in elementary school that Columbus "discovered" America, like the people living there before for thousands of years didn't matter.
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A loving reminder to everyone that when I crapped on Columbus Day, a holiday celebrating a genocidal diseased freak who brought about the start of the demise of the native Tainos of Hispañola and surrounding islands/nations, Satan responded with "well he didn't actually KILL anyone"
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yes
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the 3/5 compromise is one of the most abstractly funny things in history
so you're saying minority countries should be put on the list because they are minority countries
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also whites were never slaves
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dumbest post in this thread
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but blacks were given a month for their history because america has been vile to blacks in terrible ways in their past. having a white history month takes the emphasis off of the "we're sorry, black people"
