Paul Pettitt is a professor of Archaeology at Durham University who specializes in the European Middle and Upper Paleolithic, focusing on Neanderthal behavior, Paleolithic art, and early human mortuary activity. He co-discovered Britain’s only examples of Paleolithic cave art at Creswell Crags and has conducted excavations there and at Kent’s Cavern. His research combines archaeology, chronometry, and psychology to explore the evolution of symbolic and ritual behavior in early humans.
