Jean Clottes
Thirty Thousand Years of World Rock Art
 

Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 8:00 PM
Beckman Auditorium
$12; $10 CIT/JPL/Leakey Members; $5 Students

 

Dr. Jean Clottes is a member of numerous French and international archaeological councils, commissions and societies and is a former President and currently Honorary President of the Société Préhistorique Française. He has organized a number of national and international conferences on prehistoric art and has taught at Toulouse University and as a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. He is widely known for his research and management work at the spectacular Chauvet Cave, the site of the oldest known European cave art. He is the editor of the International Newsletter on Rock Art, which is distributed to 108 countries. He is a director of collection with the prominent French publisher Le Seuil in Paris and has published over 350 scientific articles and written or edited 22 books. He is particularly interested in all aspects of rock art, including its meaning and age as well as its interpretation for the public.

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