Style may change rapidly in our day and age, but the making of art predates written history. Thousands of paintings and engravings have been discovered world-wide, yet often the context of their creation and use has been lost. Experimental archaeology tries to fill in the gaps with experiences that can be produced today. For this month’s science ramble, let’s look at how technology helps to shape these efforts.

Further resources

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The paper covered in this episode, scroll down for videos of their lighting simulations: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0266146

A book with much detail and many example of prehistoric art: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/archaeology/prehistory/cambridge-illustrated-history-prehistoric-art