Colin Renfrew
Author of Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice
About the Author
Colin Renfrew is Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
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Works by Colin Renfrew
The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC (1972) 15 copies
Cognition and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Symbolic Storage (Monograph Series) (1999) — Editor; Contributor — 15 copies
Time Depth in Historical Linguistics (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages) (2000) — Editor — 11 copies
Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages) (1999) — Editor — 7 copies
Death rituals, social order, and the archaeology of immortality in the ancient world : death shall have no dominion (2015) 6 copies
America Past, America Present: Genes and Languages (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages) (2000) 6 copies
Image and Imagination: A Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation (Mcdonald Institute Monographs) (2007) 4 copies
Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population Prehistory of Europe (McDonald Institute Monographs) (2000) 4 copies
Ranking, resource, and exchange : aspects of the archaeology of early European society (1982) 3 copies
Towards an Archaeology of Mind: An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 30th November 1982 (1982) 2 copies
Prehistoric Sitagroi: Excavations in Northeast Greece 1968-1970, Final Report, Volume 2 (Monumenta Archaeologica) (2003) 2 copies
Keros, Dhaskalio Kavos: The Investigations of 1987-88 (Mcdonald Institute Monographs) (Mcdonald Institute Monographs) (2007) 1 copy
Death Shall Have No Dominion 1 copy
Les Origines de l'Europe: la révolution du radiocarbone (Nouvelle bibliothèque scientifique) (French… (1992) 1 copy
The explanation of culture change : models in prehistory : proceedings of a meeting of the Research Seminar in… (1973) 1 copy
The prehistory of Orkney 1 copy
Past Worlds 1 copy
Sculpture as landscape 1 copy
Associated Works
The Archaeology of the Olympics: The Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity (1988) — Contributor — 22 copies
Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public (2006) — Foreword — 16 copies
The Nostratic Macrofamily & Linguistic Paleontology (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages) (1998) — Introduction — 10 copies
Celtic from the West 2: Rethinking the Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo-European in Atlantic Europe (Celtic Studies… (2013) — Contributor — 9 copies
When Worlds Collide: Indo-Europeans and Pre-Indo-Europeans- The Bellaio Papers (Linguistica Extranea, Studia 19) (1990) — Contributor — 7 copies
Proto Indo European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem : Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas (1987) — Contributor — 6 copies
Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity (2014) — Foreword — 5 copies
Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology: Bridging the 'Great Divide' (Theoretical Archaeology Group) (1995) — Foreword — 4 copies
Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite language family : papers presented at a colloquium hosted by the University of… (2001) — Contributor — 3 copies
Der Turmbau zu Babel : Ursprung und Vielfalt von Sprache und Schrift. Band II, Sprache. — Contributor — 1 copy
Cretan offerings : studies in honour of Peter Warren (British School at Athens studies ; 18) (2010) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Renfrew, Colin
- Legal name
- Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Andrew Colin, Baron
- Other names
- Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
- Birthdate
- 1937-07-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Greece - Education
- University of Cambridge (St John's College)
St Albans School, Hertfordshire, England, UK - Occupations
- archaeologist
paleolinguist
Disney Professor of Archaeology
Master of Jesus College, University of Cambridge (1986-97) - Organizations
- University of Cambridge
University of Sheffield
Conservative Party
Royal Air Force - Awards and honors
- Society of Antiquaries (fellow|1968)
British Academy (fellow|1980)
Life Peerage (1991)
National Academy of Sciences (foreign associate|1996)
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- Works
- 70
- Also by
- 19
- Members
- 2,432
- Popularity
- #10,553
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 24
- ISBNs
- 162
- Languages
- 12
- Favorited
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