Paul Pettitt

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Barry Pettitt, FSA is a British archaeologist and academic. He specialises in the Palaeolithic era, with particular focus on claims of art and burial practices of the Neanderthals and Pleistocene Homo sapiens, and methods of determining the age of artefactss from this time. Since 2013, he has been Professor of Archaeology at Durham University. He previously taught at Keble College, Oxford and the University of Sheffield.

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U-Series Dating of Paleolithic Art in 11 Caves in Spain (2012) (432)
Stable isotope evidence for increasing dietary breadth in the European mid-Upper Paleolithic (2001) (380)
Neanderthal diet at Vindija and Neanderthal predation: the evidence from stable isotopes. (2000) (363)
U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art (2018) (335)
The early Upper Paleolithic human skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal) and modern human emergence in Iberia. (1999) (333)
Climate change and evolving human diversity in Europe during the last glacial. (2004) (254)
Radiocarbon evidence for the Lateglacial Human Recolonisation of Northern Europe (1997) (245)
The Archaeological and Genetic Foundations of the European Population during the Late Glacial: Implications for ‘Agricultural Thinking’ (2005) (234)
New evidence of Lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates (2001) (231)
Direct radiocarbon dates for Vindija G(1) and Velika Pecína late Pleistocene hominid remains. (1999) (219)
The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial (2010) (209)
A Freshwater Diet-Derived 14C Reservoir Effect at the Stone Age Sites in the Iron Gates Gorge (2001) (184)
RADIOCARBON DATES FROM THE OXFORD AMS SYSTEM: ARCHAEOMETRY DATELIST 24 (1997) (178)
Palaeolithic radiocarbon chronology: quantifying our confidence beyond two half-lives (2003) (159)
In the beginning : new radiocarbon dates for the Early Neolithic in northern Serbia and south-east Hungary. (2002) (126)
Isotope evidence for the intensive use of marine foods by Late Upper Palaeolithic humans. (2005) (124)
An Independent Chronology for British Bronze Age Metalwork: The Results of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Programme (1997) (112)
The Neanderthal dead: exploring mortuary variability in Middle Palaeolithic Eurasia (2002) (109)
The Radiocarbon Chronology (2002) (108)
The Gravettian burial known as the Prince (“Il Principe”): new evidence for his age and diet (2003) (99)
The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World (2012) (93)
Problems of dating human bones from the Iron Gates (2002) (92)
Gibraltar Neanderthals and results of recent excavations in Gorham's, Vanguard and Ibex Caves (1999) (88)
Current problems in dating Palaeolithic cave art: Candamo and Chauvet (2003) (88)
Osteocalcin protein sequences of Neanderthals and modern primates. (2005) (87)
RADIOCARBON DATES FROM THE OXFORD AMS SYSTEM: ARCHAEOMETRY DATELIST 25 (1998) (80)
RADIOCARBON DATES FROM THE OXFORD AMS SYSTEM: ARCHAEOMETRY DATELIST 30 (2000) (77)
Paviland Cave: contextualizing the ‘Red Lady’ (1998) (72)
The chronology of hand stencils in European Palaeolithic rock art: implications of new U-series results from El Castillo Cave (Cantabria, Spain). (2015) (71)
High resolution Neanderthals? Interpreting middle palaeolithic intrasite spatial data (1997) (69)
Methodological Issues in the 14C Dating of Rock Paintings (1997) (57)
On the new dates for Gorham's Cave and the late survival of Iberian Neanderthals (2006) (57)
Dating European Palaeolithic Cave Art: Progress, Prospects, Problems (2007) (55)
Shoot first, ask questions later: Interpretative narratives of Neanderthal hunting (2016) (55)
Direct AMS Radiocarbon dates for the Sungir mid Upper Palaeolithic burials (2000) (55)
RADIOCARBON DATES FROM THE OXFORD AMS SYSTEM: ARCHAEOMETRY DATELIST 21 (1996) (49)
The British Late Middle Palaeolithic: An Interpretative Synthesis of Neanderthal Occupation at the Northwestern Edge of the Pleistocene World (2011) (49)
RADIOCARBON DATES FROM THE OXFORD AMS SYSTEM: ARCHAEOMETRY DATELIST 22 (1996) (49)
Disappearing from the World: An Archaeological Perspective on Neanderthal Extinction (1999) (48)
Dating Palaeolithic cave art: Why U–Th is the way to go (2017) (47)
Neanderthal lifecycles: developmental and social phases in the lives of the last archaics (2000) (46)
Methods for U-series dating of CaCO3 crusts associated with Palaeolithic cave art and application to Iberian sites (2016) (43)
Stone Age Archaeology: Essays in honour of John Wymer (1998) (42)
New views on old hands: the context of stencils in El Castillo and La Garma caves (Cantabria, Spain) (2014) (42)
Book Review: Neanderthals and modern humans in the European landscape during the last glaciation (2005) (38)
Reply to Cavalli-Sforza and Minch (1997) (38)
Ancient Digs and Modern Myths: The Age and Context of the Kent's Cavern 4 Maxilla and the Earliest Homo sapiens Specimens in Europe (2012) (36)
Verification of the age of the Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags, UK (2005) (35)
Art and the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe: comments on the archaeological arguments for an early Upper Paleolithic antiquity of the Grotte Chauvet art. (2008) (33)
Direct radiocarbon dating of the BRNO 2 gravettian human remains (2000) (33)
Tempo and mode of formation of the Late Epigravettian necropolis of Arene Candide cave (Italy): direct radiocarbon evidence (2005) (31)
ESR and AMS-based 14C Dating of Mousterian Levels at Mujina Pećina, Dalmatia, Croatia (2002) (30)
Discovery of Palaeolithic cave art in Britain (2003) (30)
Response to Comment on “U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art” (2018) (29)
Problematizing Bayesian approaches to prehistoric chronologies (2015) (29)
An Aurignacian point from Uphill Quarry (Somerset) and the earliest settlement of Britain by Homo sapiens sapiens (2000) (27)
Evolutionary thanatology (2018) (26)
The Origins of Iconic Depictions: A Falsifiable Model Derived from the Visual Science of Palaeolithic Cave Art and World Rock Art (2018) (25)
HUMAN CONDITION, LIFE, AND DEATH AT AN EARLY NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT: BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE VEDROVICE CEMETERY AND THEIR BIOSOCIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SPREAD OF AGRICULTURE IN CENTRAL EUROPE (2008) (25)
RADIOCARBON DATES FROM THE OXFORD AMS SYSTEM: ARCHAEOMETRY DATELIST 23 (1997) (25)
The British Final Magdalenian: Society, settlement and raw material movements revealed through LA-ICP-MS trace element analysis of diagnostic artefacts (2012) (24)
New insights on Final Epigravettian funerary behavior at Arene Candide Cave (Western Liguria, Italy). (2018) (24)
Biosocial archaeology of the Early Neolithic: Synthetic analyses of a human skeletal population from the LBK cemetery of Vedrovice, Czech Republic (2013) (23)
Isotope and faunal evidence for high levels of freshwater fish consumption by Late Glacial humans at the Late Upper Palaeolithic site of Šandalja II, Istria, Croatia (2015) (22)
Dates for Neanderthal art and symbolic behaviour are reliable (2018) (20)
U-series Dating and Human Evolution (2003) (19)
The Late Glacial ancestry of Europeans> Combining genetic and archaeological evidence (2006) (18)
An alternative chronology for the art of Chauvet cave (2015) (17)
THE AGE OF THE VEDROVICE CEMETERY: THE AMS RADIOCARBON DATING PROGRAMME (2008) (17)
Sedimentary Deposition Rates and Carbon-14: the Epi-paleolithic Sequence of Öküzini Cave (Southwest Turkey) (2003) (16)
Darkness visible.: Shadows, art and the ritual experience of caves in Upper Palaeolithic Europe (2016) (15)
The living as symbols, the dead as symbols : problematising the scale and pace of hominin symbolic evolution. (2011) (14)
Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context (2013) (13)
New radiocarbon dates for the early neolithic in northern Serbia and south-east Hungary : Some omissions and corrections (2005) (13)
Response to White et al.'s reply: 'Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art' [J. Hum. Evol. (2020) 102640]. (2020) (13)
Marine diets in the European Late Upper Palaeolithic : a reply to Bocherens and Drucker (2006) (12)
Against Chauvet-nism. A critique of recent attempts to validate an early chronology for the art of Chauvet Cave (2014) (12)
Holocene humans at Pontnewydd and Cae Gronw caves (1996) (12)
Hominin evolutionary thanatology from the mortuary to funerary realm: the palaeoanthropological bridge between chemistry and culture (2018) (11)
BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITY OF THE FIRST FARMERS: INTRODUCTION TO THE VEDROVICE BIOARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT (2008) (10)
On the validity of archaeological radiocarbon dates beyond 30000 years BP (1999) (10)
Cave men: Stone tools, Victorian science, and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time (2011) (10)
Religion and Ritual in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic (2011) (10)
Human remains from the Moravian Gravettian : the Dolni Vestonice 35 femoral diaphysis (1999) (9)
PRECLASSIC THROUGH POSTCLASSIC (2000) (9)
Verification of the age of the Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags using uranium-series disequilibrium dating (2009) (8)
Are hand stencils in European cave art older than we think? An evaluation of the existing data and their potential implications (2015) (8)
Is this the infancy of art? Or the art of an infant? A possible Neanderthal face from La Roche-Cotard, France (2003) (8)
Neandertal and early modern human behavioral variability : A regional-scale approach to lithic evidence for hunting in the Levantine Mousterian. Commentaries. Author's reply (1998) (8)
AMS radiocarbon dating at Oxford and its contribution to issues of the extinction of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens sapiens across Eurasia (2000) (8)
Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave (2020) (7)
RADIOCARBON DATES FROM THE OXFORD AMS SYSTEM: ARCHAEOMETRY DATELIST 28 (1999) (7)
Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution: Landscapes of the dead: the evolution of human mortuary activity from body to place in Palaeolithic Europe (2015) (7)
Primate thanatology and hominoid mortuary archeology (2019) (7)
John Lubbock, caves, and the development of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeology (2014) (7)
Upper Palaeolithic Installation Art: Topography, Distortion, Animation and Participation in the Production and Experience of Cantabrian Cave Art (2020) (7)
When burial begins (2002) (7)
Is Palaeolithic cave art consistent with costly signalling theory? Lascaux as a test case (2017) (6)
Neanderthal extinction: radiocarbon chronology, problems, prospects and an interpretation of the existing data (1999) (6)
Response to Aubert et al.'s reply ‘Early dates for ‘Neanderthal cave art’ may be wrong’ [J. Hum. Evol. 125 (2018), 215–217] (2019) (6)
Rock-art and art mobilier of the British Upper Palaeolithic (2007) (6)
Palaeo-environments of the Balkan Lateglacial and their potential – were humans absent from the Garden of Eden ? (2013) (5)
Light, Human Evolution, and the Palaeolithic (2017) (5)
Fast and slow science and the Palaeolithic dating game (2019) (5)
Palaeolithic Cave Engravings at Creswell Crags, England (2004) (5)
Absolute dating of the Polish Magdalenian / Janusz K. Kozłowski, Paul B. Pettitt. (2001) (5)
Early "Homo sapiens" in Kent´s Cavern: The whats and whens of the KC4 maxilla (2012) (4)
Technology of Early Palaeolithic Western Europe: An Heuristic Framework (2016) (4)
Contribution of palaeolithic and neolithic Y-chromosome lineages to the modern Czech population (2006) (4)
Reply to comment on “ UTh dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art ” (2018) (4)
Failing into history : hominid conceptions of time at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition (1993) (4)
Gravettian Figurative Art in the Western Pyrenees: Stratigraphy, Cultural Context, and Chronology (2018) (4)
Trajectories before the transition, and revolutions that were or were not (2007) (4)
The visual psychology of European Upper Palaeolithic figurative art: using Bubbles to understand outline depictions (2020) (3)
Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind (2013) (3)
Excavations outside Church Hole, Creswell Crags: the first three seasons (2006-8) (2009) (3)
Bringing science to the study of ancient senses - archaeology and visual psychology (2020) (3)
A Direct AMS Radiocarbon Date on the Barma Grande 6 Upper Paleolithic Skeleton1 (2004) (3)
Chapter 8. The living as symbols, the dead as symbols (2011) (3)
The European Upper Palaeolithic (2014) (3)
Struggling artists of the Ice Age (1995) (2)
Homo neanderthalensis (King 1864) (2006) (2)
The emergence of the LBK : migration, memory and meaning at the transition to agriculture. (2012) (2)
Unearthing the Past: The Great Archaeological Discoveries That Have Changed History (2005) (2)
Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes of Devensian hyaenas from Creswell Crags, England (2012) (2)
The Mousterian in Action: Chronology, Mobility, and Middle Palaeolithic Variability (2016) (2)
Re-dating ice age art, were Neanderthals the first artists in Europe? (2012) (2)
Origins of society (2000) (1)
Palaeolithic cave art found in Britain (2003) (1)
Chauvet Cave's art remains undated (2020) (1)
"Laying Bare the Art-Making Impulse"? Two Recent Publications on Prehistoric Art (2006) (1)
ANTIQUITY and early humanity (2002) (1)
The Upper-Late Palaeolithic Transition in Western Central Europe. Workshop Rösrath, 21th-24th June 2012 (2014) (1)
Tool reduction models, primary flaking, and lithic assemblage variability in the Middle Palaeolithic of southwest France (1998) (1)
Indirect dating of palaeolithic cave art in the lower gallery of La Garma (Cantabria, Spain) using the u-series technique (2014) (1)
Palaeolithic Western and North Central Europe (2017) (1)
AMS dating of a recently rediscovered juvenile human mandible from Solutré (Saône-et-Loire, France) (2006) (1)
Return to Kent´s Cavern: New excavations in Britain´s oldest Scheduled Ancient Monument (2012) (1)
East meets west in the 6th millennium: Mesolithic osseous tools and art from Sise on the Latvian seaboard (2021) (1)
Gibraltar Palaeolithic Revisited:: New Excavations at Gorham’s and Vanguard Caves 1995-7 (2017) (1)
The Early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe. By P. J. Brantingham, S. L. Kuhn, and K. W. Kerry. (2006) (1)
Britain’s Oldest Art (2009) (1)
Supplementary Materials for U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neanderthal origin of Iberian cave art (2018) (1)
A review of the archaeological caves of the Creswell region (2009) (1)
Odd man : Neanderthals and modern humans (2000) (0)
THE DEAD AS SYMBOLS: The evolution of human mortuary activity (2010) (0)
Book Reviews January 2006 (2006) (0)
Luminescence and radiocarbon dating at Oxford= Datation par luminescence et radiocarbone a Oxford (1997) (0)
The ghosts of the Palaeolithic: individual agency and behavioural change in perspective (2007) (0)
New ways of understanding hand stencils in French and Spanish cave art (2013) (0)
To Boldly Go: Colonisation of Unfamiliar Landscapes: the Archaeology of Adaptation, edited by Marcy Rockman & James Steele, 2003. London: Routledge; ISBN 0-415-25606-2 hardback, £55 & US$95; ISBN 0-415-25607-0 paperback, £17.99 & US$29.95, xxiii + 248 pp., ills. (2004) (0)
Other laboratory dating methods (2005) (0)
Editorial (2017) (0)
Speleothems associated with archaeological artefacts - how U-Th dating can be used to constrain the age of cave art (2018) (0)
Late Upper Paleolithic funerary behavior at Arene Candide Cave (Finale Ligure, Italy) (2017) (0)
Neanderthal Activities in Caves: Was There a Ritual Dimension? (2018) (0)
Primate thanatology and hominoid mortuary archeology (2019) (0)
New light on a dark river: the early prehistory of Old Father Thames (2012) (0)
Ventral thinning of convergent tool forms in the Middle Palaeolithic of southwest France: observations, implications (2016) (0)
New technology meets old: a review of the Multimedia companion to The Middle Palaeolithic site of Combe-Capelle Bas (France), by H. L. Dibble and S. P. McPherron (1998) (0)
Psychology and Antiquity: A Prehistorian's Perspective (2021) (0)
Neanderthals, sex and modern humans (1999) (0)
A cold case closed : new light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK). (2017) (0)
Social Anthropology and Human Origins. By Alan Barnard. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011, 196 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-749-29-9. £ 16.99 (Paperback). ISBN 978-0-521-765-31-2. £ 48.00 (Hardback). (2012) (0)
From Corpse to Symbol (2019) (0)
Society and culture in Palaeolithic Europe (2000) (0)
Did Homo naledi dispose of their dead in the Rising Star Cave system? (2022) (0)
U-series age constraints for cave art in Cuevas de Puente Viesgo (Cantabria, Spain): New minimum ages for El Castillo and La Pasiega (2017) (0)
Uranium series dating of palaeolithic cave art in Iberia: Recent results and methodological considerations (2014) (0)
Dates for Neanderthal art and symbolic behaviour are reliable (2018) (0)
The Mousterian site of Ras-el-Kelb, Lebanon (2016) (0)
Age constraints for Palaeolithic cave art by U-Th dating of thin carbonate crusts (2015) (0)
Excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic Site at East Farm Barnham, by N.M. Ashton, S.G. Lewis and S.A. Parfitt (2016) (0)
Footprints of the horse-people: new research on Upper Palaeolithic France (2005) (0)
Ezra Zubrow, Françoise Audouze & James G. Enloe (ed.). The Magdalenian household: unraveling domesticity. x+335 pages, 123 figures, 24 tables. 2010. Albany (NY): State University of New York Press; 978-1-4384-3367-7 hardback $75; 978-1-4384-3366-0 paperback $29.95. (2011) (0)
FROM FUNERARY CACHING TO THE EARLIEST BURIALS OF EARLY HOMO SAPIENS (2010) (0)
Uranium-series dating of the flowstones overlying the engravings at Creswell Crags, Derbyshire (2006) (0)
Palaeoart of the Ice Age (2019) (0)
Neanderthal lifecycles: developmental an social phases in the lives of the last archaics: developmental an social phases in the lives of the last archaics (2000) (0)
FROM FRAGMENTATION TO COLLECTIVITY: Human relics, burials and the origins of cemeteries in the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic (2010) (0)
Regional adaptations of the British Late Magdalenian Creswellian variant: new research (2012) (0)
An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar (2023) (0)
VedroVice cemeTery : The amS radiocarbon daTing programme (2009) (0)
Stephen L. Kuhn. Mousterian lithic technology: an ecological perspective. xiv+209 pages, 56 illustrations, 48 tables. 1995. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press; 0-691-03615-2 hardback £39.50 & $49.50. (1996) (0)
The Hierarchy of Being Human (1993) (0)
Deposited in DRO : 24 June 2011 Version of attached le : Published Version Peer-review status of attached (2014) (0)
Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch für Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung/International Yearbook for Ice Age and Stone Age Research, Band 55 (2008). 163 pages, 95 illustrations, 2 tables. English and German text. 2008. Rahden: Marie Leidorf; ISSN: 0375-7471; ISBN 978-3-86757-921-6 hardback €59.90. (2009) (0)

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