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List of works by Stephen Shennan

A generative inference framework for analysing patterns of cultural change in sparse population data with evidence for fashion trends in LBK culture

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A non-equilibrium neutral model for analysing cultural change

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A small bouncy figure in a duffle coat

Archaeobotanical Evidence for the Spread of Farming in the Eastern Mediterranean

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Archaeological Constructs: an Aspect of Theoretical Archaeology. By Jean-Claude Gardin. xii + 202 pages, 27 figures. Cambridge University Press and Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1980. £15.00

Archaeology and evolutionary ecology

scientific article published in June 2002

Archaeology as archaeology or as anthropology? Clarke's Analytical archaeology and the Binfords’New perspectives in archaeology 21 years on

scholarly article by Stephen Shennan published in December 1989

B. L. van Beek, R. W. Brandt and W. Groenmanvan Waateringe (eds): Ex horreo. Amsterdam: Albert Egges van Giffen Instituut voor Prae- en Protohistorie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1977. 318 pp., 143 figs. £56.25

Benjamin W. Roberts and Marc Vander Linden, eds. Investigating Archaeological Cultures: Material Culture, Variability and Transmission (Berlin: Springer, 2011, 300pp., 49 figs., hbk, ISBN 978-1-4419-6970-5)

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British Neolithic Axehead Distributions and Their Implications ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Canoes and cultural evolution

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Central Europe in the third millennium B.C.: An evolutionary trajectory for the beginning of the European bronze age

scholarly article by Stephen Shennan published in June 1986

Comment on "What is the Value of an Archaeology Degree?"

scientific article published on 15 November 2006

Comment on Sterelny and Watkins

scientific article published in August 2015

Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe

Cultural continuities and discontinuities at the Neolithic transition in Eastern Iberia: an analysis of the morphometry of geometric microliths ⬇️

scientific article published on 9 October 2020

Cultural transmission, language, and basketry traditions amongst the California Indians

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Culture, society and evolutionary theory

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Culture, space, and metapopulation: a simulation-based study for evaluating signals of blending and branching

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Darwinian Archaeology

scientific article published on 15 November 1997

Demography and Cultural Innovation: a Model and its Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Culture

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Descent with modification and the archaeological record ⬇️

scientific article published on April 12, 2011

Diversity in hunter–gatherer technological traditions: Mapping trajectories of cultural ‘descent with modification’ in northeast California

scholarly article by Peter Jordan published in September 2009

Evolution in Archaeology

scholarly article by Stephen Shennan published in October 2008

Evolutionary demography and the population history of the European early Neolithic

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Evolutionary perspectives in archaeology: from culture history to cultural evolution

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First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective, by Peter Bellwood, 2013. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN hardback 978-1-4051-8909-5, £55.00, €64.70 $89.95; xvii+308 pp., 37 figures; paperback £19.99, €23.50, $39.95; e-book £15.99, ?

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

Food Income and the Evolution of Forager Mobility

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Grounding arguments about burials

Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate

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Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2021

Ian Hodder (ed.): Simulation studies in archaeology. Cambridge: University Press, 1978. 148 pp., figs. £8.50

scholarly article by Stephen Shennan published in March 1980

Interrogating Pedagogies: Archaeology in Higher Education Paul Rainbird and Yannis Hamilakis (eds)

scholarly article by Stephen Shennan published in January 2002

Introduction: demography and cultural macroevolution

scientific article published in April 2009

Is Neolithic land use correlated with demography? An evaluation of pollen-derived land cover and radiocarbon-inferred demographic change from Central Europe

scientific article published in August 2014

James Whitley. Style and society in Dark Age Greece: the changing face of a pre-literate society 1100-700BC. xx + 225 pages, 21 figures, 39 plates, 14 tables. 1991. Cambridge & New York (NY): Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0521-37383-2 hardback £3

Late Pleistocene demography and the appearance of modern human behavior

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Long-Term Demographic Trends in Prehistoric Italy: Climate Impacts and Regionalised Socio-Ecological Trajectories

scientific article published in 2021

Malé Kosihy: Osada Zo Staršej Doby Bronzovej. By Točík A.. Materialia Archaeologica Slovaca Volume 4. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra, 1981. In Slovak with German and Russian summaries

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Meta-analysis of zooarchaeological data from SW Asia and SE Europe provides insight into the origins and spread of animal husbandry

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Mind over matter?

Neolithic transition in Europe: the radiocarbon record revisited

scholarly article by Marina Gkiasta published in March 2003

Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd

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On the relevance of the European Neolithic

scholarly article by Alex Bentley published in October 2015

Population-level neutral model already explains linguistic patterns ⬇️

scientific article published on March 23, 2011

Prehistoric Europe

Prehistoric population history: from the Late Glacial to the Late Neolithic in Central and Northern Europe

Producing copper in the eastern Alps during the second millennium BC

Property and wealth inequality as cultural niche construction ⬇️

scientific article published on March 27, 2011

Quantifying Archaeology

scholarly article by Kenneth L. Kvamme published in October 1989

Radiocarbon evidence indicates that migrants introduced farming to Britain

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Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method

Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe

scientific article published on January 2013

Revealing patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data: equilibrium and non-equilibrium assumptions

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Reviews

scholarly article by Stephen Shennan published in April 2003

Revolution Fulfilled? Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, a Generation On. Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, edited by Ian Hodder. (New Directions in Archaeology Series.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 (2nd edition); ISBN-13: 9780521

scientific article published on 17 May 2007

Sampling in Contemporary British Archaeology

scholarly article by R. G. Matson published in April 1982

Size Reduction in Early European Domestic Cattle Relates to Intensification of Neolithic Herding Strategies

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Social Evolution Today

Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies. Edited by Elizabeth M. Brumfield and Timothy K. Earle. 27·5 × 22 cm. Pp. vii + 150, 35 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-521-32118-2. £25

book review

Species distribution modelling of ancient cattle from early Neolithic sites in SW Asia and Europe

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Stanton W. Green & Stephen M. Perlman (eds): The archaeology of frontiers and boundaries. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. 362 pp

scholarly article by Stephen Shennan published in July 1986

Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics: Design Analysis in the American Southwest. By Stephen Plog. viii + 160 pages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980. Price £12.50

Supply and Demand in Prehistory? Economics of Neolithic Mining in NW Europe (NEOMINE)

The Archaeology of Human Ancestry: Power, Sex and Tradition

scholarly article by Lynette A. Simon published in September 1997

The NERD Dataset: Near East Radiocarbon Dates between 15,000 and 1,500 cal. yr. BP ⬇️

scientific article published in 2022

The chronology of culture: a comparative assessment of European Neolithic dating approaches

scientific article published in December 2014

The evolution of Neolithic farming from SW Asian origins to NW European limits

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The impact of the Neolithic agricultural transition in Britain: a comparison of pollen-based land-cover and archaeological 14C date-inferred population change

scientific article published in November 2014

The nature of archaeological arguments

scholarly article by Arthur Stutt published in December 1990

The neolithic demographic transition in Europe: correlation with juvenility index supports interpretation of the summed calibrated radiocarbon date probability distribution (SCDPD) as a valid demographic proxy

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The origins and spread of stock-keeping: the role of cultural and environmental influences on early Neolithic animal exploitation in Europe

scholarly article by Katie Manning published in November 2013

The spread of Neolithic plant economies from the Near East to northwest Europe: a phylogenetic analysis

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Tyrrhenian central Italy: Holocene population and landscape ecology

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