Jean Clottes Margret W. Conkey Francesco d'Errico Henry de Lumley-Woodyear Merlin W. Donald Christopher Stuart Henshilwood David Lewis-Williams Paul Anthony Mellars Steven J. Mithen Jane M. Renfrew Paul S. C. Taçon J. Wentzel van Huyssteen Keith Ward ABOVE ANIMATION#1: The Alpine ibex shown fighting on the wall of a part of Lascaux known as the Axial Gallery are drawn in black (animal on left) and dots of yellow (animal on right). Between them is a rectangular symbol. Above them and to the left of the black ibex are horses, the most numerous of all the animals depicted in Lascaux. Courtesy of Serge deSazo/Rapho ABOVE ANIMATION#2:The largest African antelope, the eland, is depicted in many representational paintings in southern Africa. The animals, like these from Natal Drakensberg above, play an important role in the beliefs of San Bushmen. Courtesy of Jean Clottes ABOVE ANIMATION#3:In Lascaux’s Axial Gallery, small horses, similar to Prjwalski’s horses that could still be found in the nineteenth century in the steppes of Mongolia, gallop across the ceiling. The segment pictured above is part of a grand composition. Courtesy of Serge deSazo/Rapho	The principal research scientist in the Division of Anthropology at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Paul S. C. Taçon headed the museum’s People and Place Research Centre for eight years. Over the course of nearly a quarter century, he has conducted more than 60 months of archaeological and ethnographic field research in remote parts of Australia, Canada, southern Africa, and the United States. He is a specialist in rock art, landscape archaeology, and the relationship between art and identity. A graduate of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where he earned a B.A. Honors degree, Dr. Taçon earned a master’s degree at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1990. After teaching anthropology for a year at Trent, he joined the staff of the Australian Museum in 1991 and was named to his present position eight years later. Since 1998, he has headed the rock-art component of an Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded archaeological investigation in the Keep River region of the Northern Territory and a study of wooden objects made between the mid-1800s and 1970 by Indigenous people living in southeast Australia. New research projects include investigations into the rock art of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area of New South Wales and of northwest Queensland. Last year, Dr. Taçon co-led the first team of archaeologists and Aboriginal people to document sites within remote parts of Wollemi National Park, including Eagle’s Reach, one of eastern Australia’s most significant pigment rock-art sites. With colleagues from a range of institutions, he has initiated a human evolution project that takes a fresh look at the “First Peoples” of the East Asian region and includes fieldwork in Myanmar, which is being funded by a grant from the ARC. Dr. Taçon has participated in a wide range of public programs, including a 1999-2000 exhibition Mapping Our Countries (co-curated with artist Judy Watson) that explored the concept of mapping from Indigenous, non-Indigenous, political, spiritual, and aesthetic perspectives through a wide range of historic and contemporary maps, objects, and works of art. In addition to publishing more than 95 papers in scientific journals, he has co-edited three books, including (with Christopher Chippendale) The Archaeology of Rock Art, which was published in 1998 by Cambridge University Press.