Just amazing. Like going back 16000 years to ice age. It is an experiment you can take part in and also a discovery
We are archaeologists and psychologists based in both Germany and the UK. Our interdisciplinary project combines methods from archaeology with those from the psychology of vision and action (haptics) to explore how people functioned in their living spaces in the past.
In particular, we focus on the 16,000 year old Upper Palaeolithic (Late Magdalenian) campsites of Gönnersdorf and Andernach-Martinsberg, located in the Central Rhineland, Germany.
I don't have ice-age eyes! When I've previously seen such engravings unenhanced, I can't interpret them.
When enhanced, it's often astonishing how realistic and beautiful they are.
Never heard of these plaques before. They are much younger than the oldest cave paintings.
Presumably, you could sit out in the sun on a nice day, and do your art, not in a dark cave by a sputtering flame. This is progress!
Thanks for the link!