Shadow and Movement

Research into cave art, such as the paintings at Lascaux Cave, have argued that flickering firelight on the cave walls would have caused the art to appear to move. Indeed, shadows and movement still play an important part in the way we interact with the world today. We've all sat by a fire and watched the movement of light and shadow around us, and we have all experienced the how shadows can distort the shapes of things, stretching them long and thin across the ground. When we think about the experience of archeological objects, we should also think about their relationship to light and shadow. How do they catch the light, block the light, or change the light that hits them?