While people were making rock art, they no doubt practiced many other forms of art, on their bodies, on their clothes, on their habitations, on their tools and weapons and on all sorts of perishable materials. With the passing of time, all this is gone. Nowadays, though, traditional forms of tribal art still persist in many places, even if partly mixed with Hinduism, for example when some rituals take place for Diwali. We have seen and studied some of them, like painting cows and houses or making cow-dung sculptures called gobardhans. In most parts of the world, such practices are long gone and so are the meanings that went with them. This is why it is so important to record them while we can. Rock art, for physical reasons, is the best preserved of tribal arts. It is present in thousands of sites all over India, with more concentrations in the center of the country. In our book, we shall see that rock art has never been still and unmovable: it has considerably evolved over the past 12,000 years. About the Author Dr Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak has specialized in the field of Indian Rock Art, which started in the Mesolithic (more than 10,000 years ago) or even before During her many years of fieldwork she discovered dozens of new painted sites, mostly in Madhya Pradesh (particularly in the Pachmarhi area about which she did her PhD), but also in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Ladakh. She has devoted nearly thirty years of her life to the discovery, study, publication, exhibitions, workshops and protection of Indian Rock Art. This has already eamed her a deserved international recognition. She has published many papers and four books: "Rock Art of Pachmarhi Biosphere", Delhi, BR Publications, 2012. "Des Images pour les Dieux. Art rupestre et Art tribal dans le Centre de l'Inde (with Jean Clottes). Arles (France), Éditions Errance, 2013. "Powerful Images. Rock Art and Tribal Art of Chhattisgarh" (with Jean Clottes). Bloomsbury Publications, 2017. "Madhya Pradesh Rock Art and Tribal Art" (with Jean Clottes), INTACH and Aryan Books International. She was Internationally awarded the high honour of Chevalier des Arts Lettres'-Knight in the National Order of Arts and Letters- by the French Minister of Culture and Communication in 2014. She is an International Expert for rock art with ICOMOS and UNESCO. She was awarded Heritage Fellowship with Ministry of Culture, France. Also She is a Wakankar Senior Research Fellow. Film on the "Central Indian Rock Art and Tribal Art", based on her research work, screened and awarded in the International Archaeology Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. March 2019. She is a member of the Bradshaw Foundation Advisory Board (England) and a member of the Rock Art Network of the Getty Foundation (US). Dr Jean Clottes studied at Toulouse University He was a Director of Prehistoric Antiquities for Midi Pyrénées from 1971 onwards, and after being a General Inspector for Archaeology at the Ministry of Culture (1991) he became a Scientific Advisor at the same Ministry for everything relating to prehistoric rock art, a position he held until his official retirement in July 1999. He created and directed the International Newsletter on Rock Art (INORA). He has taught courses at the Universities of Toulouse (France). Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Gerona (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina, INAPL), Berkeley (USA), Victoria (Canada). He is also an International Expert for rock art with ICOMOS and UNESCO. He has published or co-published 30 books, directed 13 others and more than 600 papers. Seven of his books (and many papers) have been published in English: The Cave Beneath the Sea (Harry Abrams, 1996); The Shamans of Prehistory, with D. Lewis-Williams (Harry Abrams, 1998); World Rock Art (Getty Foundation, 2002); Chauvet Cave: the art of earliest times (ed.) (The University of Utah Press, 2003); Cave Art (Phaidon, 2008); with Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak). "Powerful Images. Rock Art and Tribal Art of Chhattisgarh Bloomsbury Publications, 2017. "Madhya Pradesh Rock Art and Tribal Art" (INTACH and Aryan Books International).