Contents: Foreword. 1. Keynote address: review of rock art historiography/R.K. Varma. 2. A thematic and relative contextual assessment on rock art imagery in India and France/Somnath Chakraverty. 3. Interpreting rock art/V.H. Sonawane. 4. Mesolithic rock art: engendering subsistence activities/R C Thakran. 5. Prehistoric art in the Vindhyas, North-Central India/J N Pal. 6. Understanding some symbols/Geometric designs in the rock art of South Bihar and adjoining Jharkhand (The Prasad rock art region) in eastern India/A K Prasad. 7. Enumeration of rock painting of Kathothiya, dist. Sehore, MP/K K Muhammed, S S Gupta and J. Manuel. 8. Lower palaeolithic petroglyphs from India and world archaeology/Giriraj Kumar. 9. Pola Bhata, a Cupule site in Bhanpura region, Chambal Valley: a study/Arakhita Pradhan. 10. Remnants of ‘power Symbolism” across different periods in rock art at Bhimbetka, dist. Raisen, M.P./J. Manuel. 11. Prehistoric paintings, bruisings and engravings in north Karnataka: a case study of Karnataka prehistoric art/A. Sundara. 12. The prehistoric rock art in the Edakkal cave of Wayanad in Kerala/K.K.N. Kurup. 13. Scientific aspects of rock art studies in central India/G L. Badam. 14. Lascaus, art and archaeology: summary/Brigitte Delluc. The Proceedings is a product of 3-day Joint Indo-French seminar on Rock Art in India and France, held in 2006 at Bhopal, under the sponsorship of Indian Council Historical Research which is a collection of 14 well researched papers on various important aspects of the theme under the title of India and France: Studies in Rock Art. The deliberations of the proceedings focused on various character and issues related to the study of rock art that include all sorts of artistic expressions such as Paintings, Engraving and Pecking drawn in the remote past on bare surface of rocks, boulders, caves and rock shelters. It contains comparative study of rock art of India and France. Almost all the regions, significant for the rock art and rock paintings of India, are deliberated by rock art historians and archaeologists.