Chauvet in Perspective

The Institut Francais in London witnessed an intriguing and illuminating afternoon with the Rock Art Seminar and screening of Werner Herzog's film 'The Cave of Forgotten Dreams'. The Rock Art Seminar was initiated and chaired by Dr Didier Bouakaze-Khan, the rock art specialist from University College London, who presented the historical perspective of prehistoric research, beginning with its initial acknowledgement and tracing the course of significant discoveries which were to give rise to a number of theories concerning rock art to the present day.

Concerning one of the most important recent discoveries, it was very fitting for Dr Didier Bouakaze-Khan to then hand over to Professor Jean-Michel Geneste, Scientific director of the Chauvet Cave and Curator of the Lascaux Cave, and the PhD student Julien Monney, who together presented the rock art of Chauvet cave within the context of Europe, then France itself, and then finally to the area surrounding the rivers Ardeche and Rhone in the Ardeche region...

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