The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World
(2012)
Book
Pettitt, P., & White, M. (2012). The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World. Routledge
Outputs (107)
The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial. (2011)
Book
Pettitt, P. (2011). The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial. Routledge
Neanderthals in Western Doggerland: towards an interpretative understanding of the Late Middle Palaeolithic Settlement of Britain. (2011)
Journal Article
White, M., & Pettitt, P. (2011). Neanderthals in Western Doggerland: towards an interpretative understanding of the Late Middle Palaeolithic Settlement of Britain. Journal of World Prehistory, 24, 25-97
Comment on Golovanova et al. Ecological factors in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition (2011)
Journal Article
Pettitt, P. (2011). Comment on Golovanova et al. Ecological factors in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition. Current Anthropology, 51, 683-4
The living as symbols, the dead as symbols: problematising the scale and pace of hominin symbolic evolution (2011)
Book Chapter
Pettitt, P. (2011). The living as symbols, the dead as symbols: problematising the scale and pace of hominin symbolic evolution. In C. Henshilwood, & F. d'Errico (Eds.), Homo symbolicus : the dawn of language, imagination and spirituality (141-162). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.168.08petThe ‘symbolic capacity’ has come to be seen as a core trait of anatomically modern humans, and probably separates them cognitively and behaviourally from all other hominins. While archaeologists agree on what aspects of the archaeological record cons... Read More about The living as symbols, the dead as symbols: problematising the scale and pace of hominin symbolic evolution.
Cave Men: stone tools, Victorian science and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time (2011)
Journal Article
Pettitt, P., & White, M. (2011). Cave Men: stone tools, Victorian science and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 65(1), 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2010.0100Palaeoanthropology, the study of the evolution of humanity, arose in the nineteenth century. Excavations in Europe uncovered a series of archaeological sediments which provided proof that the antiquity of human life on Earth was far longer than the b... Read More about Cave Men: stone tools, Victorian science and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time.
The emergence of the LBK culture: search for the ancestors (2010)
Book Chapter
Zvelebil, M., Lukes, A., & Pettitt, P. (2010). The emergence of the LBK culture: search for the ancestors. In D. Groenenborn, & J. Petrasch (Eds.), The Spread of the Neolithic to Central Europe (301-26). Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum
Lives, loves and deaths of Neolithic farmers: bioarchaeology of burials from Vedrovice (Czech Republic) and the spread of agriculture in Europe (2009)
Journal Article
Zvelebil, M., Pettitt, P., & Lukes, A. (2009). Lives, loves and deaths of Neolithic farmers: bioarchaeology of burials from Vedrovice (Czech Republic) and the spread of agriculture in Europe
Excavations outside Church Hole, Creswell Crags: the first three seasons (2006-8) (2009)
Journal Article
Pettitt, P., Jacobi, R., Chamberlain, A., Schreve, D., Wall, I., Dinnis, R., & Wragg-Sykes, R. (2009). Excavations outside Church Hole, Creswell Crags: the first three seasons (2006-8)
The rise of modern humans. (2009)
Book Chapter
Pettitt, P. (2009). The rise of modern humans. In C. Scarre (Ed.), The Human Past (124-73). Thames & Hudson