article_snippet.sent: Haematite comes from the Greek word for 'blood' and Haematite is often used as a pigment, particularly in cave paintings.
article_snippet.sent: In Mayan practices, for example, bodies were covered in a similar way using blue pigment to signify bodies were sacrifices to the gods.
article_snippet.sent: Haematite comes from the Greek for 'blood' and red ochre (pictured) is often used as a pigment, particularly in cave paintings.
article_snippet.sent: The eastern face of the block was additionally 'intensely stained' with red ochre in the area near where the bones were found, creating a link between the block and body. '
article_snippet.sent: red ochre in the area near where the bones were found may constitute the only demonstrable “grave offering”,' continued the researchers. '
article_snippet.sent: Because many of the bones are stained with red ochre, it is possible that either the woman's clothes had been stained with this material - for decoration and/or hide preservation - or the woman corpse was stained as part of a burial ritual.'
article_snippet.sent: The eastern face of the block (shown on the left of this map) was also stained' with red ochre .
article_snippet.sent: In particular, its blood-red colour may have been symbolic of life and death.
article_snippet.sent: Although lacking in clear grave offerings, the amounts of red ochre on the bones and in the burial infilling and the apparent association with rock art - both engravings and red ochre on the block against which The corpse's back had probably rested - the evidence points to a ritualized interment,' concluded the researchers. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Bones were stained with a red ochre made from a haematite crystal .
  