Authorship and visual psychology of mammoth engravings from Magdalenian Gönnersdorf (Rhineland, Germany ~15,800 Before Present).

德国莱茵兰贡纳斯多夫的旧石器时代晚期(Magdalenian)露营地有15800年的历史，保留着遗留在莱茵河畔的帐篷、户外活动区和相关垃圾的遗迹。它收藏的500块来源精良的石板牌匾上刻有被捕食动物的图像，是欧洲最大的此类材料储藏库。一些被描绘的物种(例如马)已经被详细研究：对猛犸象的描述还没有。我将使用尖端的追踪学和视觉心理技术研究它的77幅猛犸象图像，以确定个别雕刻者、特质，以及诸如妄想症等认知过程如何影响他们的雕刻和他们产生的图像。

The 15,800-year-old Upper Palaeolithic (Magdalenian) campsite of Gönnersdorf (Rhineland, Germany) preserves remains of tents, outdoor activity areas and associated refuse left on the banks of the Rhine. Its collection of >500 well-provenanced slate plaquettes bearing engraved images of prey animals provides the largest European repository of such material. Some species depicted (e.g. horse) have been studied in detail: depictions of mammoths have not. I will study its 77 mammoth images using cutting edge traceological and visual psychological techniques, in order to identify individual engravers, idiosynchracies, and how cognitive processes such as pareidolia affected their engraving and the images they produced.