of the book) brought together in 2004 a number of Palaeolithic archaeologists and rock art specialists from across the world to study the Creswell art and debate its significance, and its similarities and contrasts with contemporary Late Pleistocene ('Ice Age') art on the Continent. This

comprehensively illustrated book presents the Creswell art itself, the archaeology of the caves and the region, and the wider context of the Upper Palaeolithic era in Britain, as well as a number of up-to-date studies of Palaeolithic cave art in Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy which serve to contextualize the British examples. - ;In archaeological terms, let alone the cave-relevant subject matter, this was an incredibly important gathering and the book an equally important outcome. - Chris Howes, Descent, Vol. 197;Reading this book leaves you marvelling at the astonishing skill of the authors in seeing what generations of visitors to Creswell Crags have missed - Chris Catling, Current Archaeology  less