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Paleolithic "fireside" art may have been engraved on stone plaquettes near hearths to appear to move and flicker in the firelight

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Photograph showing ambient light levels and the position of replica plaquettes in relation to the fire.

image: Photograph showing ambient light levels and the position of replica plaquettes in relation to the fire during experiment E. view more 

Credit: Needham et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Paleolithic "fireside" art may have been engraved on stone plaquettes near hearths to appear to move and flicker in the firelight

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0266146

Article Title: Art by firelight? Using experimental and digital techniques to explore Magdalenian engraved plaquette use at Montastruc (France)

Author Countries: U.K.

Funding: A.N. Arts and Humanities Block Grant (1251018). https://ahrc.ukri.org/. A.N. British Academy British Academy Early Career Research Grant (PF19\100082). https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/. I.W. Northern Bridge Block Grant. http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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