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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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Genes, Memes, and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution
TL;DR: This book discusses culture as an evolutionary system, the history of social contracts and the evolution of property, and the role of group selection in the development of cultural traditions.
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Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method
Adrian Timpson,Sue Colledge,Enrico R. Crema,Kevan Edinborough,T Kerig,Katie Manning,Mark G. Thomas,Stephen Shennan +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a new method that used summed probability distributions (SPD) of radiocarbon dates as a proxy for population levels, and Monte-Carlo simulation to test the significance of the observed fluctuations in the context of uncertainty in the calibration curve and archaeological sampling.
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Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent
Farnaz Broushaki,Mark G. Thomas,Vivian Link,Vivian Link,Saioa López,Lucy van Dorp,Karola Kirsanow,Zuzana Hofmanová,Yoan Diekmann,Lara M. Cassidy,David Díez-del-Molino,David Díez-del-Molino,Athanasios Kousathanas,Athanasios Kousathanas,Athanasios Kousathanas,Christian Sell,Harry K. Robson,Rui Martiniano,Jens Blöcher,Amelie Scheu,Amelie Scheu,Susanne Kreutzer,Ruth Bollongino,Dean Bobo,Hossein Davoudi,Olivia Munoz,Mathias Currat,Kamyar Abdi,Fereidoun Biglari,Oliver E. Craig,Daniel G. Bradley,Stephen Shennan,Krishna R. Veeramah,Marjan Mashkour,Daniel Wegmann,Daniel Wegmann,Garrett Hellenthal,Joachim Burger +37 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that multiple, genetically differentiated hunter-gatherer populations adopted farming in southwestern Asia, that components of pre-Neolithic population structure were preserved as farming spread into neighboring regions, and that the Zagros region was the cradle of eastward expansion.
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Prehistoric population history: from the Late Glacial to the Late Neolithic in Central and Northern Europe
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used radiocarbon dates to make inferences about the history of population fluctuations from the Mesolithic to the late Neolithic for three countries in central and northern Europe: Germany, Poland and Denmark.
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Population, Culture History, and the Dynamics of Culture Change
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that prehistoric populations fluctuated much more than used to be thought and that these fluctuations can be hard to detect archaeologically, and in fact the size of populations affects the nature of cultural processes in a variety of ways.