13,000-Year-Old Red Ocher Quarry Found in Wyoming

Intact artifacts and options discovered on the Powars II web site, a purple ocher (also referred to as hematite) quarry positioned within the foothills of the southern Rocky Mountains in Wyoming, exhibit unequivocal proof for purple ocher quarrying by Paleoindians starting 12,840 to 12,505 years in the past, thus establishing Powars II because the oldest purple ocher quarry recognized within the […]