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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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A case study in combining radiocarbon and archaeological information: the early Bronze Age settlement of St. Veit-Klinglberg, Land Salzburg, Austria
TL;DR: In this article, les AA. ont combine different methods ou le radiocarbone and les statistiques and combine a large part car combines entre eux, i.e.
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Processes of culture change in prehistory: a case study from the European Neolithic
Stephen Shennan,Mark Collard +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative contribution of phylogenesis and ethnogenesis to the patterns in the archaeological record has been assessed using a case study, in which a technique that was developed to tackle the aforementioned biological problem was used to assess the roles of the two in producing the patterns of variation in a group of pottery assemblages from the Central European Neolithic.
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A generative inference framework for analysing patterns of cultural change in sparse population data with evidence for fashion trends in LBK culture
Anne Kandler,Stephen Shennan +1 more
TL;DR: A modelling framework is developed which infer underlying transmission processes directly from available data without any equilibrium assumption and concludes that the observed frequency dynamic of different types of decorated pottery is consistent with age-dependent selection, a preference for ‘young’ pottery types which is potentially indicative of fashion trends.
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Regional Demographic Trends and Settlement Patterns in Central Italy: Archaeological Sites and Radiocarbon Dates
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the largest existing repository of archaeological settlement (7,383 sites) and radiocarbon data (816 samples) for central Italy, spanning the period from the Late Mesolithic (ca. 8,000 BC) to the fall of the Roman Empire (500 AD).