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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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Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the long-term relationship between human demography, food production, and Holocene climate via an archaeological radiocarbon date series of unprecedented sampling density and detail.
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Radiocarbon evidence indicates that migrants introduced farming to Britain
Mark Collard,Mark Collard,Kevan Edinborough,Kevan Edinborough,Stephen Shennan,Mark G. Thomas +5 more
TL;DR: The authors found evidence for a marked and rapid increase in population density coincident with the appearance of cultigens around 6000 cal BP and also found evidence that this increase occurred first in southern England and shortly afterwards in central Scotland.
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Archaeobotanical evidence for the spread of farming in the eastern Mediterranean. Commentaries. Authors' reply
Sue Colledge,James Conolly,Stephen Shennan,Peter Bellwood,Laurent Bouby,Julie Hansen,David R. Harris,Konstantinos Kotsakis,Mehmet Özdoğan,Edgar Peltenburg,George Willcox +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of archaeobotanical data from 40 aceramic Neolithic sites in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe shows that there are vegetational signatures that characterize the different geographical regions occupied by the Early Neolithic farmers.
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Cultural evolution and stochastic network growth
TL;DR: A model of stochastic network growth is adapted that, by quantitatively demonstrating the inherent nonlinearity in unbiased transmission, can explain why a few highly popular styles can be expected to emerge in the course of cultural evolution.
Book
Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution
TL;DR: This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective.