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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 and Pleistocene Homo sapiens, and methods of determining the age of artefacts 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.
From 2003 to 2012, he taught and researched Palaeolithic archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Having started at Sheffield as a Lecturer, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007, and to Reader in Palaeolithic Archaeology in 2010. In January 2013, he joined Durham University as Professor of Archaeology. In 2022, he was Lady Davis Visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
Pettitt's research focuses on the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in Europe. In 2003, he co-discovered the earliest cave art in Britain at Creswell Crags. In 2008, 2009 and 2011, he co-directed excavations in Kents Cavern.
He is a member of the editorial board of World Archaeology journal.
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