This emblematic site of prehistory conceals traces of human life less famous than its cave paintings: thermal alterations, "such as rock flaking and color changes on the walls".
A project led by a team of researchers from Bordeaux and Toulouse aims to reconstruct the hearths and help archaeologists identify the functions of these tepee-shaped fires! To do this, it is mobilizing GENCI's national resources.
Understanding daily life and the layout of caves in the Paleolithic: it's also to this "time travel", to this recomposition of a distant past that the use of #supercomputers #HPC #IA contributes.
CarMoThaP project (dir. C. Ferrier, PACEA laboratory, funded by Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine)