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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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Inferential mistakes in population proxies: A response to Torfing's “Neolithic population and summed probability distribution of 14C-dates”
TL;DR: Torfing as mentioned in this paper opposed the widely held principle originally proposed by Rick (1987) that variation through time in the amount of archaeological material discovered in a region will reflect variation in the size of that local human population.
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Prehistoric palaeodemographics and regional land cover change in eastern Iberia
Ralph Fyfe,Jessie Woodbridge,Alessio Palmisano,Andrew Bevan,Stephen Shennan,Francesc Burjachs,Borja Legarra Herrero,Oreto García Puchol,José-Sebastián Carrión,Jordi Revelles,C. Neil Roberts +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the drivers of vegetation change on the Iberian Peninsula and propose that climate plays a key role in determining the species pools within different regions and exerts a st...
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Revealing patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data: equilibrium and non-equilibrium assumptions.
TL;DR: This work examines the decorative motifs of Neolithic pottery from an archaeological assemblage in Western Germany, and argues that the widely used (and relatively undiscussed) assumption that observed frequencies are the result of a system in equilibrium conditions is unwarranted, and can lead to incorrect conclusions.
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The chronology of culture: a comparative assessment of European Neolithic dating approaches
Katie Manning,Adrian Timpson,Sue Colledge,Enrico R. Crema,Kevan Edinborough,Tim Kerig,Stephen Shennan +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare radiocarbon dates for a series of European Neolithic cultures with their generally accepted ‘standard’ date ranges and with the greater precision afforded by dendrochronology, where that is available.