Stephen Shennan

{{Short description|British archaeologist}}

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{{BLP one source|date = August 2021

}}Stephen Shennan, FBA (born 9 May 1949){{Who's Who | title = SHENNAN, Prof. Stephen James | id = U151510 | volume = 2024 | edition = online}} is a British archaeologist and academic. Since 1996, he has been Professor of Theoretical Archaeology. He was Director of the Institute of Archaeology at the University College London from 2005 to 2014.{{cite web|title=SHENNAN, Professor Stephen|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-stephen-shennan|website=British Academy Fellows|access-date=13 October 2016}}

Shennan was educated at the Becket School, West Bridgford, and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he received BA (1971) and PhD (1977) degrees in Archaeology. He focuses on cultural evolution and Darwinian archaeology, applying theories from evolutionary ecology and cladistics to archaeology. In July 2006, Shennan was elected Fellow of the British Academy. Shennan was also awarded the RAI Huxley Medal 2021.{{cite web |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/news/2021/nov/stephen-shennan-awarded-rai-huxley-medal-2021 |title= Stephen Shennan awarded the RAI Huxley Medal 2021|website=www.ucl.ac.uk |date= 30 November 2021|access-date=3 September 2022}}{{title missing|date=September 2022}}

References

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Selected works

  • {{cite book|last1=Shennan|first1=Stephen|title=Experiments in the collection and analysis of archaeological survey data: the east Hampshire survey|date=1985|publisher=University of Sheffield|location=Sheffield|isbn=0906090229}}
  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Shennan|editor1-first=Stephen|title=Archaeological approaches to cultural identity|date=1989|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=0044450168}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Shennan|first1=Stephen|title=Quantifying archaeology|date=1997|publisher=University of Iowa Press|location=Iowa City|isbn=0877455988|edition=2nd}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Shennan|first1=Stephen|title=Genes, memes and human history: Darwinian archaeology and cultural evolution|date=2002|publisher=Thames & Hudson|location=London|isbn=0500051186}}
  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Layton|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Shennan|editor2-first=Stephen|editor3-last=Stone|editor3-first=Peter|title=A future for archaeology: the past in the present|date=2007|publisher=Left Coast Press|location=Walnut Creek|isbn=978-1598742145}}
  • {{cite book|editor1-last=Renfrew|editor1-first=Colin|editor2-last=Shennan|editor2-first=Stephen|title=Ranking, Resource and Exchange: Aspect of the Archaeology of Early European Society.|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=London|isbn=978-0521105095}}
  • {{cite book|last=Shennan|first=Stephen|title=The First Farmers of Europe: An Evolutionary Perspective|year=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781108386029}}