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The Dissenter · 2026-07-10 · 68 min · 9,346 words

#1278 Paul Pettitt: Human Mortuary Practices, and Other Animals' Awareness of Death

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Paul Petit. He is professor of Paleolithic archaeology at Durham University. He specializes in Paleolithic art and in the long-term development of the treatment of the dead.

And today we're going to talk about paleoanthropology, evolutionary phenotology, mortuary practices, and paleolithic cave art. So Dr. Petit, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Hello, Ricardo.

Thank you very much. Pleasure to be on the dissenter. Great. So uh uh, you know, it's funny because I've already had many paleoanthropologists on the show, but it's actually the first time I'm going to ask this question. So

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