Dr Paul Bahn
March 17, 2027 @ 10.30am
The earliest art known to the world, dating to c.40,000 to 12,000 years ago, is found primarily in western Europe and takes the form of portable art objects, engravings, drawings and paintings on cave walls and in the open air. This is the story of the art’s discovery and authentication together with how it was made and some of the many reasons why this art corpus comprises some of the greatest imagery ever produced.
Paul G Bahn MA, PhD, FSA
Born and raised in Hull, Paul studied archaeology at Cambridge and has held post-doctoral fellowships at Liverpool and London, plus a J. Paul Getty postdoctoral fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities. He went freelance in the mid-80s, and since then has devoted himself to writing, editing and translating numerous books on archaeology as well as getting in as much travel as possible. His main research interest is prehistoric art, especially rock art of the world, and most notably Palaeolithic art. He also lectures on many tours to the French and Spanish decorated caves and Easter Island together with the rock art of Brazil, Namibia, Australia and the Atacama Desert.