Stephen Shennan#


Stephen Shennan
Membership Number:3565
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Elected:2013
Main Country of Residence:UNITED KINGDOM
Homepage(s):https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/stephen-shennan-professor-theoretical-archaeology




Present and Previous Positions
  • 2005 - 2014 Director, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
  • 2003 - 5 Deputy Director, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
  • 2001 - 5 Director of the AHRB Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behaviour, University College London
  • 1996 - present Professor of Theoretical Archaeology, University College London
  • 1995 - 6 Professor, University of Southampton
  • 1990 - 5 Reader, University of Southampton
  • 1987 - 90 Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton
  • 1978 - 87 Lecturer, University of Southampton
  • 1976 - 78 Archaeological Survey Officer, Hampshire Archaeological Committee, University of Southampton
  • 1975 - 76 Research Fellow, University of Southampton

Fields of Scholarship
  • Quantitative methods
  • Cultural evolution
  • European prehistory
  • Anthropological archaeology

Honours and Awards
  • 2016 - 2020 Member, International Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
  • 2015 Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF) Research Award
  • 2010 The Rivers Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
  • 2010 ERC Advanced Grant: Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe
  • 2006-7 Li Ching Visiting Professor, University of Shandong
  • 2006 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
  • 1989 Awarded the Kulturpreis of the town of St Johann im Pongau, Austria, for services to the archaeology of the region
  • 1980 Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

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