Scientific Virtual Reality as a research tool in prehistoric archaeology: The case of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain)

A Torres, MÁ Medina-Alcaide, I Intxaurbe… - Virtual Archaeology …, 2024 - polipapers.upv.es
The Upper Palaeolithic period (ca. 45000-12000 BP) was the time when figurative art chiefly
produced by Homo sapiens emerged and developed. The Upper Palaeolithic rock art entails …

From stone tools to fMRI, studying human cognitive evolution when the mind doesn't fossilize

C Bryche, M Lesourd, F Osiurak - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2024 - Springer
Successive cognitive upswings could have been decisive in our ancestors' ability to develop
increasingly complex tool systems and functional forms of communication. The recent …

Drawing in the depths: spatial organization patterns related to Magdalenian cave art

I Intxaurbe, D Garate, M Arriolabengoa - … and Anthropological Sciences, 2024 - Springer
The creation of rock art in the deep areas of caves was one of the most unique symbolic
activities of Magdalenian societies in southwestern Europe between 13.5 and 21 thousand …

[PDF][PDF] Immersive Cave Environments in VR: A Tool for Exploring Altered States of Consciousness and Creativity in Archaeology

N De Pisapia, G Penazzi, IDJH Ibarra, C Rastelli… - Applied …, 2024 - preprints.org
This study explores the use of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) cave environments to
investigate hypotheses concerning altered states of consciousness, creativity, and flexible …

Eyes On the Past: visual exploration of Upper Palaeolithic cave art

FN Wullf, SK Kristensen, I Wisher… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - escholarship.org
The European Upper Palaeolithic is rich in figurative cave art. In particular, prey animals are
often depicted in simple sche-matic outlines. The role and function of these depictions is sub …

An Image Dispute Resulting from Pareidolia?

JP Mäkelä, EL Fagerlund - Leonardo, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract In the 1940's Nikolai Kaario, an artist and a decorative painter, found seemingly old
images from house walls in Turku, Finland. These findings generated considerable interest …