Paul Bahn is the leading expert on prehistoric rock art world-wide, and is certainly one of our best-known archaeologists. Paul led the team which discovered the first Ice Age cave art in Britain in 2003. He is not only a leading academic but a great exponent of popular and accessible archaeology, and he has been leading tours for Andante Travels since 2000, inspiring and enthusing our travellers in the famous caves of France and Spain, in open air rock shelters in Portugal, and in Chile and Easter Island.
Born and raised in Hull, Dr. Paul Bahn studied archaeology at the University of Cambridge culminating in his Ph.D. thesis on the prehistory of the French Pyrenees in 1979. Post-doctoral fellowships followed, including ones at Liverpool and London and the J. Paul Getty post-doctoral fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities. Since the mid-80s, Paul has devoted himself to writing, editing and translating books on archaeology and undertaking occasional journalistic and travel projects.
2011 Tours
Dordogne Mon 9 – Tue 17 May 2011
Altamira Mon 5 – Mon 12 September 2011
Chile and Easter Island Mon 14 – Thu 1 December 2011
2012 Tours
Pyrenees Mon 6 - Sun 12 June
Australia Mon 6 - Tue 21 August
Namibia Mon 15 - Sun 20 October
Chile and Easter Island Mon 19 November - Thu 6 December
Publications
Among his written or co-written books are:
• Pyrenean Prehistory (1984)
• Ancient Places (with Glyn Daniel, 1986)
• Images of the Ice Age (1988, with Jean Vertut)
• The Bluffer's Guide to Archaeology (1989, 2nd ed. 1999, 3rd ed. 2004)
• Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice (1991, with Colin Renfrew - 2nd ed. 1996, 3rd ed. 2000, 4th ed. 2004)
• Easter Island, Earth Island (with John Flenley, 1992)
• Mammoths (with Adrian Lister, 1995; 2nd ed. 2000)
• Archaeology: a very short introduction (1997)
• Journey Through the Ice Age (with Jean Vertut, 1997)
• The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art (1998)
• Disgraceful Archaeology (with Bill Tidy, 1999)
• The Enigmas of Easter Island (with John Flenley, 2003)
• The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology (1996)
• The Penguin Guide to Archaeology (2001)
• Cave Art - a guide to the decorated Ice Age Caves (2007)
