Stephen Shennan#

Selected publications#

2013. Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe. Nature Communications 4:2486. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3486.
2013 Colledge, S., J. Conolly, K. Dobney, K. Manning and S. Shennan (eds.), The Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
2013 Shennan, S. Demographic Continuities and Discontinuities in Neolithic Europe: Evidence, Methods and Implications. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 20, 300-311. DOI 10.1007/s10816-012-9154-3.
2011. Property and wealth inequality as cultural niche construction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 918–926.
2011 Shennan, S.J. Descent with modification and the archaeological record. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 1070-1079.
2011 Shennan, S.J. Social Evolution Today. Journal of World Prehistory: 24, 201-212.
2010 O’Brien, M., and S.J. Shennan (eds.) 2010. Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
2010 Collard, M., K. Edinborough, S.J. Shennan and M.G. Thomas. Radiocarbon evidence indicates that migrants introduced farming to Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 866-870.
2009 With Powell, A., and M.G. Thomas. Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior. Science 324: 1298-1301.
2009 Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution (edited). Berkeley: University of California Press.
2009 Jordan, P. and S.J. Shennan Diversity in hunter–gatherer technological traditions: Mapping trajectories of cultural ‘descent with modification’ in northeast California. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28: 342–365
2008 Population processes and their consequences in early Neolithic Europe. In J.-P. Bocquet-Appel, O. Bar-Yosef (eds.), The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences, pp. 315-329. Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
2002 Genes, Memes and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 304
2001 Demography and cultural innovation: a model and some implications for the emergence of modern human culture. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 11.1, 5-16.
2001 With J.R. Wilkinson. Ceramic style change and neutral evolution: A case study from Neolithic Europe. American Antiquity 66 (4): 577-593.
2000 Population, culture history and the dynamics of culture change. Current Anthropology 41, 811-835.
1997 Quantifying Archaeology. 2nd edition. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 433.
1995 Bronze Age Copper Producers of the Eastern Alps: excavations at St. Veit-Klinglberg, Austria. Habelt. pp. 396.
1993 Settlement and society in Central Europe 3500-1500 BC. Journal of World Prehistory 7, 121-161.