Colour: a human history
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The Relationship Between Red and Fertility
Archaeologists have found a huge number of red pigments being used in ancient societies. Red was associated with menstrual blood, and therefore witha with a girl becoming a woman - potentially fertile. Even to today, there are some indigenous societies where red is applied to the female body,. sometimes to the male body as well. To ar to project a kind of fertility. We don't know how far back they first were invented.
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