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View of the paintings from the
interior of the rock shelter with the rock art
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Scientists finally found a way to
produce a vivid, high-tech scan of an ancient art on a Sandstone ceiling at a
shelter in the French Alps, capturing prehistoric paintings at an altitude of
about 7000 feet.
The shelter called Abri Faravel is on
a plateu in France, and the paintings in it are said to be the highest-altitude
prehistoric animal art in Europe. The scientists had to carry car batteries to
power the equipment they used to make a laser scan of the area, as well as the
while-light scan of the cave art.
The art on the ceiling shows two
animals, head to head, as well as series of parallel lines.
The Abri Faravel shelter was first
discovered in 2010, inhabited by humans in different periods over thousands of
years from the middle Stone Age to the medieval. Besides the striking cave art,
flint tools, pottery, and metalwork, they also found a human leg bone in it.
The work was carried out by scientists
from the University of York in England.
The images and research about the site
were published in the open-access journal Internet Archeology.
Source: Fox News www.intarch.ac.uk
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