Stephen Shennan

Stephen Shennan

Stephen Shennan is Professor of Theoretical Archaeology and director of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. In July 2006 Shenann was elected Fellow of the British Academy. Shennan's work is focused on cultural evolution and Darwinian archaeology, aplying theories from Evolutionary ecology and Cladistics to archaeology.

Bibilography

*"Genes, Memes and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution". 2002. Thames & Hudson.
*"Quantifying Archaeology". 1997. Edinburgh University Press

External link

* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/profiles/shennan.htm Shennans profile at UCL]


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