Stone Age People Figured Out How To Do A Kind Of Animation

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

There’s evidence that people in the Stone Age took plaquettes, limestone representations of animals, put them near the fire and watched as the light created a kind of animation. Pretty high-tech stuff for 14,000 years ago. Plus: an enterprising young raccoon in Germany takes advantage of the rules.

Stone Age people may have gathered at night to watch animated “fireside art” (Ars Technica)

A wild raccoon moved into a German zoo and the keepers can't kick him out (Chicago Tribune)

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