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Study finds Stone Age artists were the first animators
A French archaeologist and an artist who have studied Stone Age cave art for twenty years say that many of the drawings were intended to produce an illusion of movement. According to Marc Azéma and Florent Rivère, viewing the scenes by flickering torchlight would have been just one of the…
Rock analysis suggests France cave art is ‘oldest’
WASHINGTON — Experts have long debated whether the sophisticated animal drawings in a famous French cave are indeed the oldest of their kind in the world, and a study out Monday suggests that yes, they are. The smooth curves and fine details in the paintings of bears, rhinoceroses and horses…
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