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Stephen Shennan
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 197
Citations - 11456
Stephen Shennan is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Prehistory. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 192 publications receiving 10207 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen Shennan include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior
TL;DR: A population model shows that demography is a major determinant in the maintenance of cultural complexity and that variation in regional subpopulation density and/or migratory activity results in spatial structuring of cultural skill accumulation.
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Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe
Stephen Shennan,Sean S. Downey,Sean S. Downey,Adrian Timpson,Kevan Edinborough,Sue Colledge,Tim Kerig,Katie Manning,Mark G. Thomas +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the introduction of agriculture into Europe was followed by a boom-and-bust pattern in the density of regional populations, and the results suggest that the demographic patterns may have arisen from endogenous causes, although this remains speculative.
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Demography and Cultural Innovation: a Model and its Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Culture
TL;DR: It is suggested that the model has major implications for the origins of modern human culture in the last 50,000 years, which may be seen not as the result of genetic mutations leading to improved cognitive capacities of individuals, but as a population consequence of the demographic growth and increased contact range which are evident at this time.
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Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans
Zuzana Hofmanová,Susanne Kreutzer,Garrett Hellenthal,Christian Sell,Yoan Diekmann,David Díez-del-Molino,Lucy van Dorp,Saioa López,Athanasios Kousathanas,Athanasios Kousathanas,Vivian Link,Vivian Link,Karola Kirsanow,Lara M. Cassidy,Rui Martiniano,Melanie Strobel,Amelie Scheu,Amelie Scheu,Kostas Kotsakis,Paul Halstead,Sevi Triantaphyllou,Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika,Dushka Urem-Kotsou,Christina Ziota,Fotini Adaktylou,Shyamalika Gopalan,Dean Bobo,Laura Winkelbach,Jens Blöcher,Martina Unterländer,Christoph Leuenberger,Çiler Çilingiroğlu,Barbara Horejs,Fokke Gerritsen,Stephen Shennan,Daniel G. Bradley,Mathias Currat,Krishna R. Veeramah,Daniel Wegmann,Daniel Wegmann,Mark G. Thomas,Christina Papageorgopoulou,Joachim Burger +42 more
TL;DR: This study demonstrates a direct genetic link between Mediterranean and Central European early farmers and those of Greece and Anatolia, extending the European Neolithic migratory chain all the way back to southwestern Asia.
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Random drift and culture change
TL;DR: It is concluded that cultural and economic choices often reflect a decision process that is value–neutral; this result has far–reaching testable implications for social–science research.