Douglas J. Kennett

About

Douglas J. Kennett is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His specialization is in Archaeology, with a focus on Environmental Archaeology and Human Behavioral Ecology. He is based in the Humanities and Social Sciences Building at UCSB and can be contacted via email at kennett@anth.ucsb.edu or by phone at (805) 893-3456. His research interests include archaeological studies related to environmental factors and human behavior, contributing to the understanding of past human-environment interactions.

Research topics

• Geography
• Archaeology
• Biology
• Demography
• Sociology
• Ecology
• History
• Evolutionary biology
• Genetics
• Ethnology

Selected publications

• Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

  Nature · 2021 · 453 citations

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• Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age

  Nature · 2021 · 244 citations

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• A Paleogenomic Reconstruction of the Deep Population History of the Andes

  Cell · 2020 · 191 citations

  There are many unanswered questions about the population history of the Central and South Central Andes, particularly regarding the impact of large-scale societies, such as the Moche, Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inca. We assembled genome-wide data on 89 individuals dating from ∼9,000-500 years ago (BP), with a particular focus on the period of the rise and fall of state societies. Today's genetic structure began to develop by 5,800 BP, followed by bi-directional gene flow between the North and South Hig…

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• Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history

  Nature · 2020 · 180 citations

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• Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers

  Nature · 2022 · 159 citations

  . Here we present genome-wide ancient DNA data for six individuals from eastern and south-central Africa spanning the past approximately 18,000 years (doubling the time depth of sub-Saharan African ancient DNA), increase the data quality for 15 previously published ancient individuals and analyse these alongside data from 13 other published ancient individuals. The ancestry of the individuals in our study area can be modelled as a geographically structured mixture of three highly divergent sourc…

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Recent grants

• Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Origins Of Social Stratification

  NSF · $30k · 2015–2016

• HSD: Collaborative Research: Development and Resilience of Complex Socioeconomic Systems: A Theoretical Model and Case Study from the Maya Lowlands

  NSF · $321k · 2008–2012

• Collaborative Research: Long-Term Human-Environmental Interaction In a Lowland Tropic Setting

  NSF · $127k · 2016–2020

Frequent coauthors

• Brendan J. Culleton

  Pennsylvania State University

  155 shared

• David Reich

  Broad Institute

  109 shared

• Swapan Mallick

  Broad Institute

  72 shared

• Kristin Stewardson

  Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  64 shared

• Jonas Oppenheimer

  Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  60 shared

• Matthew Mah

  Harvard University

  54 shared

• Nadin Rohland

  52 shared

• Keith M. Prufer

  50 shared

Labs

• ArchaeologyPI

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