Doug Bailey is Professor of Visual Archaeology at San Francisco State University, USA. He is the author of Prehistoric Figurines (2005), Unearthed (2010) and Breaking the Surface (2018). He has directed excavations in Bulgaria and Romania, and has curated exhibitions at the International Museum Contemporary Sculpture, Portugal (2020) and Carpintarias Saõ Lázaro, Portugal (2021). He is an established expert in the archaeology of art and the prehistoric archaeology of Europe.