Business Insider – India
By MARIANNE GUENOT, GRACE ELIZA GOODWIN, JENNY MCGRATH
SEP 9, 2023, 06:33 IST
Archaeologists have discovered new Paleolithic animal paintings from tens of thousands of years ago hidden in a cave using an updated photography technique.
There are over 700 paintings lining the rock walls of the Cave of La Pasiega in north-central Spain, which anthropologists first discovered in 1911.
For the most part, scientists viewed them as two-dimensional drawings. But the ancient artists actually incorporated bumps, dips, and crevices from the rocks into their art that can’t be fully appreciated in 2D.