historian Jordanes claimed that the ancient Caledonians painted themselves "Iron Red", "whether by way of adornment or perhaps for some other reason".

Ochre has uses other than as paint: "tribal peoples alive today . . . use either as a way to treat animal skins or else as an insect repellent, to staunch bleeding, or as protection from the sun. Ochre may have been the first medicament."

Ancient Egypt

In Ancient Egypt,

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