Anthropologist and prehistorian specializing in Saharan rock artFrance
Jean-Loïc Le Quellec is a French anthropologist and prehistorian specializing in Saharan rock art. He has conducted several expert missions in the Sahara for UNESCO and is a Research Director Emeritus at the CNRS. In 2022, he published The Original Cave: Art, Myths, and the First Humanities. On France Culture, he asks: “Why enter dark caves to depict a small number of animal species, and more rarely a few humans, often animalized?” and proposes the hypothesis of “a great creation myth that informed the ontology of Paleolithic artists: that of primordial emergence, which spread across the entire surface of the globe as Sapiens discovered new territories.”
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