David Sandeford

MA, Columbia University

MA, University of Chicago

BA, University of Texas at Austin

Publications

Sandeford, DS. 2026. An energetic theory of urbanization in ancient societies. Under review at Journal of the Royal Society Interface. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zbqyx_v1.

Sandeford, DS, Turchin, P, Hamilton, MJ, Lobo, J. 2025. Social complexity promotes cooperation and functional integration in large-scale societies. Submitted to Science Advances. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tvrkp_v1. Runner up for the 2023 Reynold Ruppe Prize for best paper in archaeology by a graduate student in SHESC.

Sandeford DS. 2024. The complex social network structure of large-scale human societies. Under revision at Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.  https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ezdrj_v2

Sandeford, DS. 2021. A quantitative analysis of intensification in the ethographic record. Nature Human Behaviour 5:1502-1509. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01120-w. Runner up for the 2020 Reynold Ruppe Prize for best paper in archaeology by a graduate student in SHESC.

Hamilton, M, Walker, RS, Buchanan B, and Sandeford, DS. 2020. Scaling human sociopolitical complexity. PLoS ONE 15(7): e0234615. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234615.

Sandeford, DS. 2018. Organizational complexity and demographic scale in primary states. Royal Society Open Science 5: 171137 http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/5/171137. Awarded the 2019 Reynold Ruppe Prize for best paper in archaeology by a graduate student in SHESC.

Sandeford, DS. n.d. Chomsky versus Habermas on human nature and political evolution. Master's thesis, University of Chicago.