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Jean Clottes
Jean Clottes is a prominent French prehistorian. He was born in the French Pyrenees in 1933〔("Jean Clottes," ) The Archeology Channel website, retrieved 2-12-08.〕〔("Dr. Jean Clottes, Archaeologist," ) Bradshaw Foundation website, retrieved 2-12-08.〕 and began to study archaeology in 1959, while teaching high school. He initially focused on Neolithic dolmens, which were the topic of his 1975 Ph.D. thesis at the University of Toulouse.〔〔Gregory Curtis, ''The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists''. New York: Anchor Books, 2006.〕 After being appointed director of prehistoric antiquities for the Midi-Pyrénées in 1971, he began to study prehistoric cave art in order to fulfill the responsibilities of that position.〔 In the following years he led a series of excavations of prehistoric sites in the region. In 1992, he was named General Inspector for Archaeology at the French Ministry of Culture; in 1993 he was appointed Scientific Advisor for prehistoric rock art at the French Ministry of Culture. He formally retired in 1999, but remains an active contributor to the field.〔
To date he has written over 300 scientific papers, and has edited, co-edited, written, or co-authored a total of over 20 books.〔 He has also lectured around the world, taught at the University of Toulouse and the University of California at Berkeley, and engaged in numerous public outreach and professional service activities.〔〔 He has received several honors from the French government and also from the Blue Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert, who made him an honorary Tuareg in 2007.〔
==Connection to major prehistoric site discoveries==
Clottes took a leading role in the study of two of the most famous prehistoric painted caves discovered to date: the underwater Cosquer cave, discovered in 1985 in cliffs at the shore near Marseille; and the spectacular Chauvet Cave, discovered in 1994.〔 Radiocarbon dating showed that the paintings of Chauvet are approximately 30,000-32,000 years old, more than 2,000 years older than the next-oldest known cave paintings.〔〔Jean Clottes (director), ''Chauvet Cave: The Art of Earliest Times.'' Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003.〕 The revelation of Chauvet's beautiful and often highly sophisticated paintings was seen as a blow to theories arguing that art history is a story of "progress" from crude, clumsy beginnings succeeded by increasing levels of sophistication.〔〔
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