Paul Pettitt

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Paul Barry Pettitt is a British archaeologist with a focus on Middle and Upper Paleolithic Europe.

life and work

Pettitt studied Ancient History and Archeology at the University of Birmingham , where he graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts . As a post-graduate, he worked at the Institute of Archeology at University College London , where he completed his Master of Arts in 1992 . He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999 with the PhD Tool reduction models, primary flaking, and lithic assemblage variability in the Middle Palaeolithic of southwest France . Contrary to the title, he was particularly interested in the behavior of the Neanderthals that can be seen in the tools .

Pettitt began his career as an archaeologist in 1995 when he joined the Research Laboratory for Archeology and the History of Art at Oxford University, where he was promoted to Senior Archaeologist . He also worked as a Research Fellow for archeology and anthropology at Keble College , Oxford. After leaving Oxford University in 2001, he moved to the Chair of Paleolithic Archeology at the University of Sheffield in 2003 , where he again worked as a lecturer, from 2007 as Senior Lecturer , and finally from 2010 as Reader. In 2013 he was appointed to Durham University .

In 2003 he was one of the discoverers of the earliest cave art in Great Britain ( Creswell Crags ). In 2008, 2009 and 2011 he was one of the lead excavators at Kents Cavern . On June 19, 2008, Pettitt became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London . Since 2016 he has been on the editorial board of the World Archeology Journal , as he has been co-editor of the Journal of World Prehistory since 2008 .

Pettitt sees his focus on the origin and nature of Paleolithic art, but also funeral activities, chronometry and the behavior of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. In addition, he deals with the late Paleolithic Great Britain and the disappearance of the Neanderthal man.

Works (selection)

  • with Gordon C. Hillman, Robert Hedges, Andrew Moore, Sue Colledge: New evidence for Late Glacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates , in: The Holocene 11,4 (2001) 383-393.
  • with William Davies, Clive S. Gamble, Martin Richards: Palaeolithic Radiocarbon Chronology: Quantifying our confidence beyond two half-lives , in: Journal of Archaeological Science 30/12 (2003) 1685–1693; doi: 10.1016 / S0305-4403 (03) 00070-0 .
  • with Vincenzo Formicola, Martin P. Richards, Roberto Maggi: The Gravettian burial known as 'The Prince' ('Il Principe'): new evidence for his age and diet , in: Antiquity 77 (2003) 15–19 ( online , PDF ).
  • On the New Dates for Gorham's Cave and the Late Survival of Iberian Neanderthals , in: Before Farming 3 (2006) 1-9 ( full text (PDF) ).
  • with Paul Bahn, Sergio Ripoll (eds.): Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags in European context , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-929917-1 .
  • The Neanderthals , in: Barry Cunliffe , Chris Gosden, Rosemary A. Joyce (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Archeology , Oxford University Press, pp. 332-370.
  • with Paul Bahn: Britain's Oldest Art. The Ice Age Cave Art of Creswell Crags , Swindon 2009.
  • The Palaeolithic origins of human burial. Routledge, London / New York 2010, ISBN 0-415-35489-7 .
  • with Mark White: The British Palaeolithic. Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World , Routledge, London / New York 2012, ISBN 0-415-67455-7 .
  • with Mark White: Ancient digs and modern myths. The context and age of the Kent's Cavern 4 maxilla and the spread of Homo sapiens in Europe. In: European Journal of Archeology 15 (20102) 1-30.
  • Landscapes of the Dead: from face-to-face to place in human mortuary evolution. In: Fiona Coward, Robert Hosfield, Matt Pope, Francis Wenban-Smith (Eds.): Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution Cambridge University Press, pp. 258-274.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Paul Barry Pettitt: Tool Reduction Models, Primary Flaking, and Lithic Assemblage Variability in the Middle Palaeolithic of Southwest France ( Newton Library Catalog ), University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Fellows Directory , Society of Antiquaries of London.
personal data
SURNAME Pettitt, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pettitt, Paul Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British paleolithic
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century