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MURR researcher is lead author on study of oldest known red ochre mine in the Americas

Brandi MacDonald, an assistant research professor at the University of Missouri Research Reactor’s Archaeometry Laboratory, led the first study of the oldest known red ochre mine in the Americas.

Brandi MacDonald, an assistant research professor at the University of Missouri Research Reactor’s Archaeometry Laboratory, led the first study on the discovery in conjunction with researchers from Canada and cultural authorities in Mexico (read more at Mizzou News).

a red ochre mining cave system
MacDonald and her colleagues have dated this red ochre mining cave system to the end of the last Ice Age, making it the oldest of its kind in the Americas. Image courtesy of Sam Meacham/CINDAQ.org