Dr Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak has specialized in the field of Indian Rock Art, which started in the Mesolithic (more than 10,000 years ago) or even before.During her many years of fieldwork she discovered dozens of new painted sites, mostly in Madhya Pradesh (particularly in the Pachmarhi area about which she did her PhD), but also in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Ladakh. She has devoted nearly thirty years of her life to the discovery, study, publication, exhibitions, workshops and protection of Indian Rock Art. This has already earned her a deserved international recognition. She has published many papers and three books: Rock Art of Pachmarhi Biosphere, Delhi, BR Publications, 2012; Des Images pour les Dieux. Art rupestre et Art tribal dans le Centre de l’Inde (with Jean Clottes), Arles (France), Éditions Errance, 2013 and Powerful Images: Rock Art and Tribal Art of Chhattisgarh (with Jean Clottes), Bloomsbury Publications, 2017.
Dr Jean Clottes studied at Toulouse University. He was a Director of Prehistoric Antiquities for Midi-Pyrénées from 1971 onwards, and after being a General Inspector for Archaeology at the Ministry of Culture (1991) he became a Scientific Advisor at the same Ministry for everything relating to prehistoric rock art, a position he held until his official retirement in July 1999. He is currently the editor of the International Newsletter on Rock Art (INORA). He is also an international expert for rock art with ICOMOS and UNESCO. He has published (or edited) 42 books and more than 550 papers.
