Upper Palaeolithic Art (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present findings from our Citizen Science-focused project that combines Pleistocene Archaeology, traceology, and visual psychology experimentation to offer new perspectives on Ice Age art. Our project visually explores the content and wider context of the 15,800-year-old German Gönnersdorf/Andernach Upper Palaeolithic engraved plaquettes (portable...
Exceptionalism and Raw Material Choice in Western European Early Upper Palaeolithic Symbolism (2015)
Since the Lower Palaeolithic, rare, exotic and unusual mineral and fossilized materials (e.g. amber, jet, belemnite, ammonite, soapstone) have constituted objects of interest for humans and our recent ancestors across Eurasia and Africa. There are examples of novel materials being collected, curated and/or minimally modified since nearly the beginning of prehistory. Beginning in the Upper Paleolithic, a number of these raw materials became, for the first time, a habitual part of human...
Unravelling the Complexity of Magdalenian Engravings on Gönnersdorf Plaquettes: Investigating through Manual and Controlled Robotic Experiments (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our AHRC/DFG-funded Household Art project explores the content and wider context of the 15,800-year-old Gönnersdorf/Andernach Upper Palaeolithic engraved plaquettes (portable schist) curated at MONREPOS, Neuwied (Germany). We use state-of-the-art 3D scanning microscopic and use-wear technologies in MONREPOS’S TraCEr laboratory and visual psychological...