PAIRED BLACK AND RED FIGURINE IN AFRICAN ART WORLDWIDE OVER A 9,OOO YEAR PERIOD. For at least 9000 years worldwide, artists portraying African figures have used the same red ochre and black charcoal crayons, portrayed figures of the same miniature size, and traversed two identical phases. The first phase in (blue background) showed the body without clothes and featureless face while the second phase depicted clothed individuals with facial features (yellow background). These yellow-blue pairs appear in Africa (1, 2), the Ancient Near East (3, 4), the Americas (5, 6, 7), and Europe (8, 9). Only in China do we have the red and black figurine in phase one alone and not phase two (at least not yet revealed). There are two possibilities regarding the fact that this artistic pairing spanning nearly a deca-millennium (and perhaps the plethora of figurine art standing for thousands of years in Egypt’s prehistoric environment before its hieroglyphics strung these lone action figures into strings of thought, our first sentences).The first is that this is wholly accidental. The second is that these conventions had a point of origination that spread outwards to Egypt (2); Diyala in Mesopotamia (4); Bonampak in Mexico (7); and Strasbourg in France (9)...art, art history, Paul Marc Washington, paleoneolithic@yahoo.com

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