British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Stephen Shennan
Professor of Theoretical Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Year elected: 2006

He is one of Europe's leading theoretical and prehistoric archaeologists. From an initial focus on the Copper and Bronze Ages in central Europe, he moved on to pioneer statistical methods in archaeology. He is internationally renowned not only as a European prehistorian but as a highly innovative thinker who has introduced evolutionary models into the study of later prehistory.