Tag: finger fluting
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Training AI to Identify Ancient Artists: Griffith Researchers Map Finger Fluting Through Digital Archaeology
Unveiling Ancient Hands Through Digital Archaeology Griffith researchers have taken a bold step into the deep past by marrying artificial intelligence with digital archaeology to study one of humanity’s oldest rock art traditions: finger fluting. These marks, created by fingers sliding across a soft mineral film known as moonmilk on cave walls, offer a doorway…
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Training AI to Identify Ancient Artists: Griffith’s Digital Archaeology Approach to Finger Fluting
Introduction: A new frontier in understanding ancient hands Researchers at Griffith are exploring whether modern artificial intelligence can help identify the gender of ancient cave artists by studying finger flutings—one of the oldest forms of rock art. Finger flutings are marks formed when a finger strokes a soft mineral film called moonmilk on cave walls.…
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Training AI to Identify Ancient Artists: Griffith’s Digital Archaeology of Finger Fluting
Introduction: A New Frontier in Digital Archaeology Researchers at Griffith’s Centre for Social and Cultural Research have piloted a digital archaeology framework to explore who created ancient finger flutings in cave walls. Finger fluting, marks made by fingers through a soft mineral film called moonmilk, is one of the oldest forms of rock art known…