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Paul Pettitt is Senior Lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has degrees from the universities of Birmingham, London and Cambridge, and was Senior Archaeologist in the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow and Tutor in Archaeology and Anthropology at Keble College, Oxford. His research interests focus on the European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. He has published over 190 papers in scientific journals and edited volumes, including chapters on the Neanderthals (in the Oxford Handbook of Archaeology) and the rise of modern humans (in Scarre (ed.) The Human Past). In 2003 he co-discovered Britain's first examples of Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags, where he currently excavates.Pettitt, Paul is the author of 'The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial', published 2004 under ISBN 9780415354905 and ISBN 0415354900.
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