Thank you for visiting nature. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer. In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Its preservation and ubiquity within archaeological records across sub-Saharan Africa are well documented, but regional-scale networks of mineral selection, mining, transport, and use is an underdeveloped field. Here, we present a framework for interpreting regional variations within an overarching ochre-behavioral community of practice. Deep-time records of ochre provisioning span the final Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age in modern day Eswatini, revealing longstanding cultural continuities in the intergenerational transmission of shared knowledge on landscapes, geology, and the desired physicochemical properties of mineral pigments. These communities of practice did not develop in isolation, and were part of a wider system of relations that were influenced and mediated by social interactions, such as technological learning, seasonal traveling, material culture exchange, and symbolic expression. We use compositional analyses to determine localized ochre procurement strategies and long-distance transport across a network of fifteen archaeological sites and mineral resources. The analysis of earth beta off not dating read pigments, or ochreshas played a role in interpretations of cognitive behaviors 67is linked to rock art and symbolic expressions 8and is associated with tool hafting adhesives 910bedding 11and several examples of compositional analysis and provenance 1213141516 But, it has rarely been conceptualized in a framework that advances identifying ochre communities of practice 181920 Lave and Wenger first introduced the concepts of communities of practice and situated learning to describe how shared knowledge and traditions emerge within, and are reinforced and communicated across, social groups 19 Learning a body of knowledge or skill is an inherently social practice that can occur at different nodes within a cultural framework, whether formal, passive, embedded, peripheral, or restricted. These concepts have been applied to understand the social dimensions of lithic technologies 23ceramic production 2425and early metallurgical practices The social practices that motivated people to seek out and use ochre were group activities such as seasonal traversal through different ecological environments, teaching and learning on where to locate geologic formations that bear raw materials with desirable characteristics, and the techniques necessary for mining and processing of ochres with different material properties. The earth mineral-based mixtures that were produced by people signify material and cognitive beta off not dating read, often including ingredients that reflect traditional knowledge of mineral and biological resources used in the deep past, such as iron and manganese oxides, and also composite mixtures that included wetting agents and binding media, such as milk, fat, blood, and plant resins 26 Those components were selected for their properties color, durability, adhesion, resistance to weatheringbut also for sociocultural reasons, such as spiritual potency and the geographic origins of minerals. Here, we show evidence for long term, regional-scale behavioral stability in ochre provisioning and transport, but also, distinctive site-specific variations in procurement-based technological choices. The diversity and complexity of these beta off not dating read illustrates precisely how an overarching, shared cultural identity surrounding ochres can unify various localized and contextually-contingent communities of practice Ochre is widely recognized as a red, yellow, or violet pigmentaceous earth mineral, often conflated with manganese oxide black ochreand its importance throughout human history is indisputable 28 It survives deep time records 7was extracted by intensive mining practices 30transported great distances 3used in symbolic and mortuary expression 3132underwent processing to enhance its properties and performance in complex paint mixtures It continues to retain widespread cultural importance in many descendant communities today 3435363738 Yet, the differences between ochres are not always obvious, and pigments that appear the same in color and texture often have distinct physicochemical properties Here, we present a framework for understanding ochre communities of practice in the final MSA and LSA of Eswatini using a multi-proxy approach. We used a combination of analytical techniques to determine the provenance and physicochemical properties of ochre assemblages from ten sites, and raw materials collected from nine geological source localities Fig. Following the local traditional nomenclature and geology of Eswatini, we use the term ochre to describe all earth-derived mineral pigments, with specific reference to red or yellow ochre iron oxide and iron-rich clayblack ochre paint including magnetite, manganese oxides, or charcoal and white ochre paint kaolin. Key archaeological sites and earth mineral pigment source locations are shown. Sites Nkomo Hill, Ntfonjeni, Nkambeni, Ndhlozane, and Nhlonhleni are shown to illustrate the locations of rock art relative to raw material sources. Eswatini also hosts Lion Cavern, a high-elevation highveld site situated atop the Ngwenya Massif ironstone and hematite deposit, which is presently the oldest direct evidence for ochre mining during the MSA 4344 Fig. The current study focuses on ochre artifacts and raw materials from fifteen sites and sources that span the final MSA and LSA, through to the Iron Age Fig. For decades, archaeologists working across the surrounding region have collectively assumed that any ochre present in artifact assemblages in the area 46including nearby Border Cave in South Africa, likely came from Ngwenya 474849 In the absence of geochemical data this would be a reasonable assumption as Ngwenya ochre is high in quality and desirable properties for creating pigment rich red hue, fine-grained with minimal impurities, contained localized brilliant speculariteis a highly visible landmark, and was present in massive abundance prior to modern mining activities 474850 Excavation records documented at least four prehistoric mining sites beta off not dating read the Ngwenya Massif: Lion Cavern, Banda Cavern, Castle Cavern, and Castle Quarry, the latter two of which were subsequently destroyed during industrial mining Ngwenya high grade A—CNgwenya low grade D—FKubuta GBulembu H—JLupholo Dam K, LMnyongane M, NMaloma O. In addition to the ore deposits across Ngwenya Massif, we surveyed six sources of iron FeOx and manganese oxide MnOx elsewhere in Eswatini, including the Maloma ore deposit, Kubuta manganese ore field, the Gege goethite-magnetite deposit, the secondary deposits of banded ironstone at Mahamba Mountain in the south, the Mnyogane and Lupholo Dam lateritic-saprolitic clays in the western middleveld, and one locality around Siphiso, located along the Lebombo Mountain range in the east. A total of samples were analyzed from the source locations see Supplementary Notes 1. Supplementary Table 2 list the sites, numbers of ochre artifacts, and source materials included in the study. Four of the sites, Sibebe, Muti Muti, Nsangwini, and Ndhlozane, have extensive panels of monochrome red or polychrome red, violet, black, brown, yellow, white, orange rock art motifs.
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