Publications

2019

Whitehouse, H., Francois, P., Savage, P.E., Currie, T.E., Feeney, K.C., Cioni, E., Purcell, R., Ross, R.M., Larson, J., Baines, J., ter Haar, B., Covey, A., Turchin, P. (2019) Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1043-4

2018

Mullins, D. A., Hoyer, D., Collins, C., Currie, T., Feeney, K., François, P., Savage, P.E., Whitehouse, H., Turchin, P. (2018). A Systematic Assessment of the Axial Age Thesis using global comparative historical evidence. American Sociological Review. doi: 10.1177/0003122418772567

Peregrine, P.N., Brennan, R., Currie, T., Feeney, K., Francois, P., Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H. (2018) Dacura: A new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitativeand Interdisciplinary History, doi:10.1080/01615440.2018.1443863

Moravec, J.C., Quentin, A., Bowern, C., Greenhill, S.J., Jordan, F.M., Ross, R.M., Gray, R., Marsland, S., Cox, M.P. (2018) Post-Marital Residence Patterns Show Lineage-Specific Evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior, Vol.0, Issue 0. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.002

Turchin, P., Currie, T. E., Whitehouse, H., Francois, P., Feeney, K. C., Mullins, D., Hoyer, D., Collins, C., Grohmann, S., Savage, P. E., Mendel-Gleason, G., Turner, E., Dupeyron, A., Cioni, E., Reddish, J., Levine, J., Jordan, G., Brandl, E., Williams, A., Cesaretti, R., Krueger, M., Cecceralli, A., Figliulo-Rosswurm, J., Peregrine, P., Marciniak, A., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Kradin, N., Korotayev, A., Palmisano, A., Baker, D., Bidmead, J., Bol, P., Christian, D., Cook, C., Covey, A., Feinman, G., Júlíusson, Á. D., Kristinsson, A., Miksic, J., Mostern, R., Petrie, C., Rudiak-Gould, P., ter Haar, B., Wallace, V., Mair, V., Xie, L., Baines, J., Bridges, E., Manning, J., Lockhart, B., Tuan, P.-J., Bogaard, A., Spencer, C. (2018).  Quantitative Historical Analysis Uncovers a Single Dimension of Complexity that Structures Global Variation in Human Social Organization Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). doi:10. 1073/pnas.1708800115/-/DCSupplemental.

Manning, P., François, P., Hoyer, D. & ZadorozhnyV.,(2018)  Comprehensive Geographic Information Systems ScienceDirect, 119-144. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09658-5

2017

Peregrine, P., Brewer, J., Gelfand, M., Jackson, J., MacDonald, I., Richerson, P., Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., & Wilson, D.S. (2017). Grand Challenges for the Study of Cultural Evolution. 1, 70. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0070

Whitehouse, H., and François, P. (2017). Ritual, Emotion, and Power. In Merridee L. Bailey and Katie Barclay (eds.) Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200-1920. Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-44185-6

Daniel Austin Mullins, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, et al (2017) A systematic assessment of 'Axial Age' proposals using global comparative historical evidence SocArXiv 10.31235/osf.io/r9czx

2016

Wilson, D.S. & Whitehouse, H. (2016) Developing the Field Site Concept for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Cliodynamics, 7(2), 228-287. doi.org/10.21237/C7clio7233542

Brennan, R., Feeney, K. C., Mendel-Gleason, G., Bojan Bozic, Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., François, P., Currie, T., Grohmann, S., (2016). Building the Seshat Ontology for a Global History Databank Sack, H., Blomqvist, E., d’Aquin, M., Ghidini, C., Ponzetto, S. P. & Lange, C. (eds.).The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains, 693-708. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34129-3_42

Francois, P., Turchin, P., Manning, J., Robert Brennan, Currie, T., Feeney, K. C., & Whitehouse, H.  (2016). A Macroscope for Global History: Seshat Global History Databank, a Methodological Overview. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 10(4). 

Gavin, O., Kontokostas, D., Koller, A., Davies, J., Francois, P., Marciniak, A., Bozic, B., Mendel-Gleason, G., Feeney, K. & Brennan, R. (2016). The ALIGNED Project—Aligned, Quality-Centric Software and Data Engineering Driven by Semantics. LNCS, 9678.

Wilson, D. S., Hartberg, Y., MacDonald, I., Lanman, A. J., & Whitehouse, H.  (2016). The Nature of Religious Diversity: A Cultural Ecosystem Approach Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 7(2), 134-153. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2015.1132243

Whitehouse, H. (2016). Ritual and Social Evolution: Understanding social complexity through data. In B. Bozic et al. (Eds.): Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities, 482,3-14. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_1

2015

Whitehouse, H., François, P. & Turchin, P. (2015). The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five predictions and a drum roll. Cliodynamics, 6(2), 199-210. doi.org/10.21237/C7clio6229624

Whitehouse, H., François, P. & Turchin, P. (2015). Can there be a science of history? Response to commentaries on “The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll”. Cliodynamics, 6(2), 214-16. doi.org/10.21237/C7clio6229624

Salali, G.D., Whitehouse, H. & Hochberg, M.E. (2015). A Life-Cycle Model of Human Social Groups Produces a U-Shaped Distribution in Group Size PLOS ONE, 10(9), e0138496. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138496

Currie, T. E., Bogaard, A., Cesaretti, R., Edwards, N. R., François, P., Holden, P. B. ,  Hoyer, D., Korotayev, A.,  Manning, J., Garcia, J. C. M., Oyebamiji, O. K., Petrie, C., Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H. & Williams, A.,  (2015). Agricultural Productivity in Past Societies: Toward an Empirically Informed Model for Testing Cultural Evolutionary Hypotheses Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution, 6(1), 24-56. 

Turchin, P., Brennan, R., Currie, T.E., Feeney, K.C., François, P., Hoyer, D. Manning, J. G., Marciniak, A., Mullins, D., Palmisano, A., Peregrine, P., Turner, E.A.L., & Whitehouse, H. (2015). Seshat: The Global History Databank Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution, 6(1), 77-107. 

2013

Bulbulia, J., Geertz, A.W., Atkinson, Q.D.,  Cohen, E., Evans, N., Francois, P., Gintis, H., Gray, R.D.,  Henrich, J., Jordon, F.M., Norenzayan, A., Richerson, P.J., Slingerland, E., Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., Widlok, T., & Wilson, D.S.  (2013). The Cultural Evolution of Religion P. J. Richerson & M. H. Christiansen. (eds.) Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Jordan, F., Schaik, C., François, P., Gintis, H., Haun, D., Hruschka, D.,Janssen, M., Kitts, J., Lehmann, L., Mathew, S., Richerson, P., Turchin, P. & Wiessner, P. (2013). Cultural Evolution of the Structure of Human Groups  P. J. Richerson & M. H. Christiansen (eds.) Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262019750.001.0001

Mullins, D., Whitehouse, H., & Atkinson, Q. (2013). The Role of Writing and Recordkeeping in the Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,90, Supplement, June 2013, S141-S151. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2012.12.017

Whitehouse, H. (2013). Rethinking Proximate Causation and Development in Religious Evolution P. J. Richerson & M. H. Christiansen (eds.) Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

Whitehouse, H., Mazzucato, C., Hodder, I., & Atkinson, Q.D. (2013). Modes of Religiosity and the Evolution of Social Complexity at Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder (ed.) Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society: Vital Matters. Cambridge: CUP.

Hochberg, M.E. & Whitehouse, H.  (2013). To Understand Present Day Cultures We Must Study the Past: a Commentary on David Sloan Wilson. Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History, 4,126-128.

2012

Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., Francois, P., Slingerland, E., & Collard, M. (2012). A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History, 3(2) 271 – 293. 

Whitehouse, H., Kahn, K., Hochberg, M. E., & Bryson, J.J. (2012). The Role for Simulations in Theory Construction for the Social Sciences: Case Studies Concerning Divergent Modes of Religiosity Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 2(3),182-201. dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2012.691033 

2011

Whitehouse, H., Mazzucato, C. & Atkinson, Q. (2011). Ritual Community and Conflict Project Catalhoyuk 2011 Archive Report, Catalhoyuk Research Project. 

Atkinson, Q.D. & Whitehouse, H. (2011). The Cultural Morphospace of Ritual Form: Examining Modes of Religiosity Cross-Culturally Evolution and Human Behavior, 32(1), 50-62. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.09.002

2010

Whitehouse, H. & Hodder, I. (2010). Modes of Religiosity at Çatalhöyük I. Hodder (ed.) Religion in the Emergence of Civilization: Çatalhöyük as a Case Study, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.