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Lisa-Elen Meyering's Outputs (3)

Upper Palaeolithic fishing techniques: Insights from the engraved plaquettes of the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, Germany (2024)
Journal Article
Robitaille, J., Meyering, L.-E., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Pettitt, P., Jöris, O., & Kentridge, R. (2024). Upper Palaeolithic fishing techniques: Insights from the engraved plaquettes of the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, Germany. PLoS ONE, 19(11), Article e0311302. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311302

The ~15,800 year-old Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, in Germany, has produced 406 engraved schist plaquettes which have been extensively studied in the past. The introduction of advanced imaging technologies, notably Reflectance Transformation Imagi... Read More about Upper Palaeolithic fishing techniques: Insights from the engraved plaquettes of the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, Germany.

The visual psychology of European Upper Palaeolithic figurative art: using Bubbles to understand outline depictions (2020)
Journal Article
Meyering, L.-E., Kentridge, R., & Pettitt, P. (2020). The visual psychology of European Upper Palaeolithic figurative art: using Bubbles to understand outline depictions. World Archaeology, 52(2), 205-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2020.1891964

How have our visual brains evolved, and exactly how did this constrain the specific way that animals were depicted in Upper Palaeolithic art? Here, we test predictions derived from visual neuroscience in this field. Using the example of open-air Uppe... Read More about The visual psychology of European Upper Palaeolithic figurative art: using Bubbles to understand outline depictions.