Stephen Shennan

13.4k citations
144 papers · 7.7k · 5 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

  • Paleontology top 0.05%
    • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Archeology top 0.1%
    • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
    • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies

Papers in

    • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies 77
    • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology 39

Stephen Shennan

136 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Stephen Shennan's Hit Papers

Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate 2017 · 196 citations
1960+8+16Years since publication200400600

Peers

Stephen Shennan
Comparison fields: 5 of 156
  • Paleontology 4.5k
  • Archeology 528
  • Anthropology 3.0k
  • Space and Planetary Science 243
  • Archeology 1.7k
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All Works

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1
Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior
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2009648
2
Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe
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2013529
3
Demography and Cultural Innovation: a Model and its Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Culture
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2001385
4
Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method
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2014275
5 2004273
6 2006215
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Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate
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2017196
8 2003165
9 2000156
10 1981149
11 2004149
12 2009144
13 1994139
14 1989129
15 2018129
16 2005125
17 2018124
18 2012114
19 2019110
20 2003109

About Stephen Shennan

Stephen Shennan is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Archeology, having authored 144 papers that have together received 7.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (77 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (39 papers), Language and cultural evolution (29 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (23 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (17 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (13 papers), Archaeological Research and Protection (9 papers) and Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (4.5k citations), Archeology (528 citations), Anthropology (3.0k citations), Space and Planetary Science (243 citations) and Archeology (1.7k citations). Stephen Shennan has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Mark Thomas, Kevan Edinborough, Sue Colledge, Adam Powell, Tim Kerig, Andrew Bevan, Enrico R. Crema, R. Alexander Bentley, Katie Manning and James Conolly. Their work appears in journals such as Antiquity, Journal of Archaeological Science, The Holocene, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

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