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The deep past in the virtual present: developing an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the psychological foundations of palaeolithic cave art (2023)
Journal Article
Wisher, I., Pettitt, P., & Kentridge, R. (2023). The deep past in the virtual present: developing an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the psychological foundations of palaeolithic cave art. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 19009. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46320-8

Virtual Reality (VR) has vast potential for developing systematic, interdisciplinary studies to understand ephemeral behaviours in the archaeological record, such as the emergence and development of visual culture. Upper Palaeolithic cave art forms t... Read More about The deep past in the virtual present: developing an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the psychological foundations of palaeolithic cave art.

Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain) (2023)
Journal Article
Wisher, I., Pettitt, P., & Kentridge, R. (2024). Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain). Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 34(2), 315-338. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774323000288

The influence of pareidolia has often been anecdotally observed in examples of Upper Palaeolithic cave art, where topographic features of cave walls were incorporated into images. As part of a wider investigation into the visual psychology of the ear... Read More about Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain).

Illuminating palaeolithic art using virtual reality: A new method for integrating dynamic firelight into interpretations of art production and use (2023)
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Wisher, I., & Needham, A. (2023). Illuminating palaeolithic art using virtual reality: A new method for integrating dynamic firelight into interpretations of art production and use. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 50, Article 104102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104102

Approaches to Palaeolithic art have increasingly shifted beyond the traditional focus on engraved or depicted forms in isolation, to appreciating the sensorial experience of art making as integral to shaping the form of depictions and the meaning imb... Read More about Illuminating palaeolithic art using virtual reality: A new method for integrating dynamic firelight into interpretations of art production and use.

Art by firelight? Using experimental and digital techniques to explore Magdalenian engraved plaquette use at Montastruc (France) (2022)
Journal Article
Needham, A., Wisher, I., Langley, A., Amy, M., & Little, A. (2022). Art by firelight? Using experimental and digital techniques to explore Magdalenian engraved plaquette use at Montastruc (France). PLoS ONE, 17(4), Article e0266146. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266146

Palaeolithic stone plaquettes are a type of mobiliary art featuring engravings and recovered primarily from Magdalenian sites, where they can number from single finds to several thousand examples. Where context is available, they demonstrate complex... Read More about Art by firelight? Using experimental and digital techniques to explore Magdalenian engraved plaquette use at Montastruc (France).