Archaeologists Find Traces of Indigo Dye on 34,000-Year-Old Grinding Tools from Georgia

Sep 2, 2025 - 12:30
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Archaeologists Find Traces of Indigo Dye on 34,000-Year-Old Grinding Tools from Georgia
Five pebbles from Dzudzuana Cave, Georgia. Image credit: Longo et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321262.

Archaeologists from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and elsewhere have found traces of indigotin -- a blue secondary compound, also known as indigo -- on unknapped ground stone tools recovered from Dzudzuana Cave, located in the foothills of the Caucasus in Georgia.

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