Combined with traces of a rich red pigment known as ocher, these remnants pointed toward the site's identity as an 11,000-year-old mine.
The Powars II site in Wyoming is significant because it's the only known red ocher quarry archaeologists have discovered north of Mesoamerica, or what is today …
A team of underwater cave explorers in Mexico has discovered the oldest known system of red ochre mines in the Americas. The discovery sheds light on how humans lived as long as 12,000 years …
The Powars II Paleoindian Archaeological Site in Sunrise – believed to be the oldest known mining operation in both North and South America – would have been wiped out if former Sunrise resident Wayne …
Red ochre was used to make some of the world's earliest paints. A mine was recently discovered in eastern Wyoming. Wyoming legislators may soon protect a little-known archeological site in eastern …
Here, we present uniquely preserved evidence indicating that people were exploring underground cave systems to prospect and mine red ochre, an iron oxide earth mineral pigment used widely by North America's earliest …
CASPER — Researchers from the University of Wyoming and Wyoming State Archeologists Office have confirmed that humans used an ancient red ocher mine …
As detailed in a scientific article published last week, Pelton and his team have confirmed that the Powars II red ocher mine near Sunrise in eastern Wyoming is the oldest mining operation in North …
Floating through the eerie depths of a submerged cave system on the Yucatán Peninsula, divers recovered evidence that ancient …
Archeological excavations led by Wyoming's state archaeologist and University of Wyoming researchers have confirmed that an ancient mine in Southeastern Wyoming was used nearly 13,000 …
