Professor Jean-Michel Geneste, archaeologist, has been principle conservator of Lascaux and Director of the Centre National de la Préhistoire in Périgueux, and currently directs archaeological research at Chauvet Cave (France). He has undertaken archaeological fieldwork relating to rock art in Australia, British Colombia (Canada), France and Siberia (Russia). His latest book is the multi-volume Monographie de la Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc (Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme), Volume 1 of which is co-edited with Jean-Jacques Delannoy and due to be published in 2017.