Prehistoric Animated Cave Paintings

**Yalquzaq** · 10-06-2012, 10:00 AM

Sorry if this is a repost, but its really fascinating!

http://youtu.be/x8exsw6yKXw

News out of France concerning Prehistoric cave drawings that were animated by torch-light is taking the art history world by storm, and has overwhelmed this artist to the point of awe. The cave drawings were found by archaeologist Marc Azema and French artist Florent Rivere, who suggest that Paleolithic artists who lived as long as 30,000 years ago used animation effects on cave walls, which explains the multiple heads and limbs on animals in the drawings. The images look superimposed until flickering torch-light is passed over them, giving them movement and creating a brief animation.
“Lascaux is the cave with the greatest number of cases of split-action movement by superimposition of successive images. Some 20 animals, principally horses, have the head, legs or tail multiplied”

**Loki** · 10-06-2012, 10:11 AM

Wow, this is 10,000 years older than Gobustan in Azerbaijan.

**Yalquzaq** · 10-06-2012, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Loki

Wow, this is 10,000 years older than Gobustan in Azerbaijan.

And animated.

**Ulex** · 10-06-2012, 01:44 PM

A stoneage cinema! (Coming NOT to a theater near you.) I always figured there was something wrong with those pictures, something I was not able to determine exactly what was. What I used to describe as early impressionism really wasn't impressionism but something astoningly else.

This discovery goes hand in hand with the theories of some scholars, stating that our stoneage forefathers were not stupid at all, but they in fact were just as intelligent, and probably even more, than modern man.