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Making a Stone Adze — The Woodworking Tool That Shaped Canoes and Beams
by Woody
Prehistoric
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Polishing a Neolithic Ground Stone Axe — The Tool That Cleared the Forests
by Mary
Prehistoric
34
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Knapping an Obsidian Blade — Pressure-Flaked Volcanic Glass
by Mary
Prehistoric
35
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Making a Bone Awl — Piercing Tool for Sewing and Basketry
by Mary
Prehistoric
35
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Making a Stone Scraper for Hide Working — Conchoidal Flake Tool
by Mary
Prehistoric
43
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Making a Hammerstone — The First Tool in Human History
by Mary
Prehistoric
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Making Maya Blue — The Indestructible Pigment of Mesoamerica
by Charlie
ART
74
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2
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Hazardous
Making Han Purple — Ancient China's Synthetic Barium Copper Silicate Pigment
by Charlie
ART
43
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Making Egyptian Blue — The World's First Synthetic Pigment
by Charlie
ART
34
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Making Mars Colours — Synthetic Iron Oxide Pigments from Copperas
by Charlie
ART
37
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Hazardous
Making Cadmium Yellow Pigment — The Permanent Bright Yellow That Replaced Chrome
by Charlie
ART
32
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Hazardous
Making Viridian — The Permanent Transparent Chromium Oxide Green
by Charlie
ART
21
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Hazardous
Making Emerald Green (Paris Green) — The Brilliant and Deadly Copper Arsenate Pigment
by Charlie
ART
38
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3
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Hazardous
Making Chrome Yellow — The Brilliant Lead Chromate Pigment of the 19th Century
by Charlie
ART
29
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4
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Hazardous
Making Cobalt Blue (Thénard's Blue) — The First Modern Synthetic Blue Pigment
by Charlie
ART
41
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Making Zinc White Pigment — The Non-Toxic Replacement for Lead White
by Charlie
ART
31
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5
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Making Sap Green from Buckthorn Berries — The Medieval Manuscript Painter's Green
by Charlie
ART
34
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Making Copper Resinate Green — The Transparent Glaze of Medieval and Renaissance Painters
by Charlie
ART
35
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Extracting Tyrian Purple from Murex Snails — The Most Precious Colour of Antiquity
by Charlie
ART
43
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Making Indigo Pigment for Painting — Extracting the Blue Pigment Cake from Indigo Plant
by Charlie
ART
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