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The Right Honourable
The Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
FBA FSA HonFSAScot
Professor Renfrew in 2018
Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
In office 1986–1996
Preceded by
Sir Alan Cottrell
Succeeded by
David Crighton
Disney Professor of Archaeology University of Cambridge
In office 1981–2004
Preceded by
Glyn Daniel
Succeeded by
Graeme Barker
Personal details
Born
Andrew Colin Renfrew
(1937-07-25) 25 July 1937 (age 86) Stockton-on-Tees, England
Political party
Conservative
Education
St Albans School, Hertfordshire
Alma mater
St John's College, Cambridge
Military service
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch/service
Royal Air Force
Years of service
1956–1958
Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, FBA, FSA, Hon FSA Scot (born 25 July 1937) is a British archaeologist, paleolinguist and Conservative peer noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, neuroarchaeology, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites.
Renfrew was formerly the Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and is now a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
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The Idea of Prehistory (1962), later updated in collaboration with ColinRenfrew, Edinburgh University Press, 1988. Daniel published two detective fiction...
something about the lifestyles of those who created or used artifacts. ColinRenfrew, a proponent of processual archaeology, observed in 1987 that it focuses...
British School at Athens and later in 1973 by the British archaeologist ColinRenfrew, revealed a town wall and a Minoan-inspired structure, dubbed the Pillar...
of Keros. In 2006–2008, the Cambridge Keros Project, co-directed by ColinRenfrew with others, conducted excavations at Kavos on the west coast of the...
10,000 years ago. The question was first formulated by archaeologist ColinRenfrew in 1996. Timeline of prehistory Ancient history The Great Filter Fermi...
the sedentary farmer theory, first developed by British archaeologist ColinRenfrew in 1987, proposes that the dispersal of Proto-Indo-Europeans originated...
Newgrange is a popular tourist site and, according to archaeologist ColinRenfrew, is "unhesitatingly regarded by the prehistorian as the great national...
period. The place name terms for all these cultures were proposed by ColinRenfrew in 1972 as a replacement for the "Early Helladic" periodizations; however...
prehistoric art. He is a contributing editor to Archaeology magazine. With ColinRenfrew, he wrote the popular archaeology textbook Archaeology: Theories, Methods...
Sourcecatalog.com (2011-11-15). Retrieved on 2011-11-20. Iain Morley and ColinRenfrew. The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time...
B. (1998). The Nostratic macrofamily and linguistic palaeontology. ColinRenfrew, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Cambridge: McDonald...
Poul Anderson, and scientists writing for the popular media, such as ColinRenfrew. According to F. B. J. Kuiper, echoes of "the 19th century prejudice...
At Cambridge she met ColinRenfrew, with whom she married and had 3 children (Helena Renfrew-Knight, Alban Renfrew, Magnus Renfrew). She took part in excavations...
The Cambridge World Prehistory, edited by ColinRenfrew and Paul G. Bahn, was published in three volumes by Cambridge University Press in 2014. According...
by other prominent academic and professional archaeologists such as ColinRenfrew (2006). Other academic archaeologists have chosen to use other terms...
heredity". The term archaeogenetics was conceived by archaeologist ColinRenfrew. In February 2021, scientists reported the oldest DNA ever sequenced...