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Light reveals new details of Paul Gauguin's creative process Posted: 14 Feb 2015 03:45 PM PST French artist Paul Gauguin is well known for his colorful paintings, but he also was a highly experimental printmaker. Little is known, however, about how he created his complex graphic works. Now a team of scientists and art conservators has used a light bulb, an SLR camera and computational power to uncover new details of Gauguin's process -- how he formed, layered and re-used imagery to make 19 unique graphic works.

Larger area analysis needed to understand patterns in ancient prehistory Posted: 13 Feb 2015 01:48 PM PST Archaeologists need to study larger areas of land and link those studies to measurable environmental, societal and demographic changes to understand variations in prehistoric societies, according to anthropologists. The large areas are necessary to say anything meaningful about human behavioral response to social and environmental events.