Stone Age Europeans may have gathered around campfires at night to see the simple animated images come to life as the light of the fire danced over the stones with primitive graphics painted on them. This conclusion was made by British archaeologists who studied plaques, ancient Paleolithic drawings on flat stones, discovered in the Montastryuk rock shelter in southern France in the 19th century. An article about this was published in the journal. PLOS ONE.
Needham et al., 2022, PLOS ONE/CC-BY-4.0
Most of these plaques measure 10 to 20 cm and represent animals, usually horses or deer, drawn on one or both sides of the stone. They were created by representatives of the Madeleine culture who lived in this region 16-13.5 thousand years ago. As one of the arguments to support their theory, the researchers point out that only these artifacts found in the stone bunker bear traces of heat exposure, that is, they were often placed near fires.
To find further evidence of the authenticity of ancient animation, Andy Needham and colleagues created 3D computer models of the plaques and used virtual reality to simulate the dim light dance on their surfaces.
Source: Gazeta
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