4th Vienna Anthropology Days 2024 (VANDA)

The AAV at the 4th Vienna Anthropology Days 2024 (VANDA)

Marina Gutiérrez De Angelis, one of the team members, is participating in the collective work: “A Pilot Study on the Potential of Prehistoric Rock Art in Karst Limestone Environments in Southeastern Sicily”, coordinated by archaeologist Maria Rosa Iovino from the Italian Institute of Human Paleontology.

This study integrates digital technologies such as photogrammetry and virtual reality (VR) to transcend traditional formal typologies and recognition models of rock art, examining these visual artifacts through the lens of embodied perception. Interest in the body-brain system has been explored across multiple disciplines, including cognitive neuroscience, cognitive archaeology, cyberarchaeology, multisensory anthropology, and visual studies. These perspectives collectively contribute to understanding our relationship to visual manifestations through embodied perception as a complex multimodal system.

This project aims to contribute to the collaborative construction of an interdisciplinary approach, articulating experiments in archaeology, cognitive neuroscience, digital humanities and visual anthropology, for a deeper understanding of prehistoric visual communication capabilities.

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Photogrammetric model of the cave (Marina Gutierrez De Angelis)
Photogrammetry: Metashape. Post Edition: Blender, MeshLab.