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69
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17881
World Ranking
812
National Ranking
150

Stephen Shennan publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen Shennan sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 286 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Stephen Shennan D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen Shennan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Stephen Shennan is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Archaeology, Paleontology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anthropology, and Space and Planetary Science. The primary focus lies in Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, including Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeological Research and Protection, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Marine and environmental studies, and Language and cultural evolution.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Trends in Plant Science.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Stephen Shennan are:

  • Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe (2022, Nature)
  • Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Ornamental plant domestication by aesthetics-driven human cultural niche construction (2021, Trends in Plant Science)
  • Archaeology, demography and life history theory together can help us explain past and present population patterns (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Long-Term Demographic Trends in Prehistoric Italy: Climate Impacts and Regionalised Socio-Ecological Trajectories (2021, Journal of World Prehistory)

Their collaborative work often involves co-authors such as Andrew Bevan, Alessio Palmisano, Dan Lawrence, Alexander Kabelindde, and Neil Roberts.

Stephen Shennan has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2013.

Best Publications

  • Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior

    Adam Powell;Stephen Shennan;Stephen Shennan;Mark G. Thomas;Mark G. Thomas

  • Genes, Memes, and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution

    Stephen Shennan

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

    Stephen Shennan;Sean S. Downey;Sean S. Downey;Adrian Timpson;Kevan Edinborough

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

    Stephen J. Shennan

  • Random drift and culture change

    R. Alexander Bentley;Matthew W. Hahn;Stephen J. Shennan

  • Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

    Zuzana Hofmanová;Susanne Kreutzer;Garrett Hellenthal;Christian Sell

  • The Development of Social Stratification in Bronze Age Europe [and Comments and Reply]

    Antonio Gilman;Robert McC. Adams;Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri;Alberto Cazzella

  • Population, Culture History, and the Dynamics of Culture Change

    Stephen Shennan

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

    Adrian Timpson;Sue Colledge;Enrico Crema;Kevan Edinborough

  • Ceramic Style Change and Neutral Evolution: A Case Study from Neolithic Europe

    S.J. Shennan;J.R. Wilkinson

  • Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent

    Farnaz Broushaki;Mark G. Thomas;Vivian Link;Vivian Link;Saioa López

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

    Stephen Shennan;Kevan Edinborough

  • Branching, blending, and the evolution of cultural similarities and differences among human populations

    Mark Collard;Mark Collard;Stephen J. Shennan;Jamshid J. Tehrani

  • Archaeobotanical evidence for the spread of farming in the eastern Mediterranean

    Sue Colledge;James Conolly;Stephen Shennan

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

    Andrew Bevan;Sue Colledge;Dorian Fuller;Ralph Fyfe

  • Radiocarbon evidence indicates that migrants introduced farming to Britain

    Mark Collard;Mark Collard;Kevan Edinborough;Kevan Edinborough;Stephen Shennan;Mark G. Thomas

  • Neolithic transition in Europe: the radiocarbon record revisited

    Marina Gkiasta;Thembi Russell;Stephen J. Shennan;James Steele

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

    Peter Jordan;Stephen Shennan

  • Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe

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  • Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity

    Stephen Shennan

  • Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

    Stephen Shennan

  • Constructing frames of reference: An analytical method for archaeological theory building using ethnographic and environmental data sets

    S Shennan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jessie Woodbridge
Jessie Woodbridge Plymouth University
Mark G. Thomas
Mark G. Thomas University College London
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Michael J. O'Brien
Michael J. O'Brien Tulane University
Keith Dobney
Keith Dobney University of Sydney
Neil Roberts
Neil Roberts Plymouth University
R. Alexander Bentley
R. Alexander Bentley University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Arie Altman
Arie Altman Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joachim Burger
Joachim Burger Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Daniel G. Bradley
Daniel G. Bradley Trinity College Dublin

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