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Image: Location map (Image: C. Defrasne)
Image: The paintings at the Abri Faravel. Two groups of roughly parallel lines, and two animals facing one another. (a) Normal light image; (b) Zoom of paintings – colours enhanced with DStretch with the YBR matrix (Photo and enhancement: C. Defrasne)
Image: The Faravel plateau viewed from the north – location of the Abri Faravel indicated with an arrow (Photo: K. Walsh)
Image: View and situation of the Abri Faravel from the south-east - location of the Abri Faravel indicated with an arrow (Photo: Loïc Damelet, CNRS/Centre Camille Jullian)
Image: A collage of views of the Abri Faravel rock shelter (Photo: K. Walsh)
Image: View of the paintings from the interior of the rock shelter with the rock art colours enhanced with DStretch (Photo: Loïc Damelet, CNRS/Centre Camille Jullian; enhancement: C. Defrasne)
Image: The execution of the white light scan of the paintings (Photo: K. Walsh)
Image: The execution of the laser scan of the rock shelter and its landscape (Photo: K. Walsh)
Image: Distribution map of the archaeological sites in the high altitude area of southern Ecrins. Faravel is centre-right of map (Image: V.Dumas, F. Mocci and K. Walsh)
Image: Hypothesised Mesolithic to Neolithic tree line (Virtual reconstruction, K. Walsh)
Image: Neolithic polished stone axe found close to the Faravel rock shelter (Photo: Guillaume Contini)
Image: Final recording of the paintings. (Photo: L. Damelet)
Image: Complete plan of the 'ceiling' of the Abri Faravel with the paintings, key micro-topographical features and calcite precipitation (Image: C. Defrasne).
Image: The painted marks on the lower interior face of the rock shelter (top - general view of the interior face of the rock shelter; middle – normal light zoom onto painted marks; bottom –DStretch enhanced zoom onto painted marks) (Photo and enhancement: C. Defrasne).
Image: The site and paintings at Balm d'la Vardaiola (Piedmont, Verbano Cusio Ossola region). Assigned by the excavators to the Neolithic. (By permission Ministero del Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo - Soprintendenza Archeologia del Piemonte); (DStretch enhancement with the YBR matrix undertaken by authors). (Copyrighted images not to be copied or exploited without prior permission)
Image: The paintings from Bessans (the Rocher du Château). Top: view of the cliff (Rocher du Chateau); Bottom: Zoom onto part of the panel - colours enhanced with DStretch with the LRE matrix (Photo and enhancement: K. Walsh)
Image: Bronze and Iron Age engraved panels at Naquane, Roccia Grande (Photo: C. Defrasne)
Image: Image of the paintings from Pierre Escrite (Chasteuil, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) (courtesy of Philippe Hameau, LAPCOS, Département de Sociologie-Ethnologie de l'Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) (DStretch enhancement undertaken by authors)
Image: The deer hunting scene (corridor 1, zone 2, and group 8) in the Porto Badisco cave (Otranto, Lecce, Puglia, Italy). General view of cave interior. By permission of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Tourism - Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Puglia - Stock Photo. (Copyrighted images. Not to be copied or exploited without prior permission)
Image: The deer hunting scene (corridor 1, zone 2, and group 8) in the Porto Badisco cave (Otranto, Lecce, Puglia, Italy). Detail of 'hunting' scene. By permission of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Tourism - Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Puglia - Stock Photo. (Copyrighted images. Not to be copied or exploited without prior permission)
Image: Rock art from Astuvansalmi (Finland) - colours enhanced with DStretch and the LRE matrix (Photo: K. Walsh)
Image: Late Minoan larnax from Chania (Crete, Greece) (Photo: K. Walsh)
Image: The Abri Faravel, late winter – note how the zone below the under hang is protected from the snow (Photo: Jean-Philippe Telmon, Parc National des Ecrins)