Colin Renfrew

Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew o Kaimsthorn, FBA, FSA, Hon FSA Scot (25 July 1937 – 24 November 2024) wis a British archaeologist, paleolinguist an Conservative peer namelie fur his wark on radiocarbon datin, the prehistory o leids, archaeogenetics, neuroarchaeology, an the keppin o spulyiein at archaeological larachs.

Poseetions, awairds an accolades

• Fellae o the British Academy (1980)
• Renfrew wis creautit a life peer on the 24 June 1991 as Baron Renfrew o Kaimsthorn, o Hurlet in the District o Renfrew.
• Fremmit Witroker tae the National Academy o Sciences o the USA 1996.
• Balzan Prize, gien in Prehistoric Archaeology fur 2004.
• Chair, Managin Cooncil fur the British School at Athens, syne 2004.
• Veesitin Scholar, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, 2005–06.
• Memmer o the American Philosophical Society syne 2006.
• Honorar degrees frae the Varsities o Sheffield, Athens, Southampton, Liverpool, Edinburrie, St Andras, Kent, London an Lima.

Buiks

• Renfrew, A.C., 1972, The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in The Third Millennium BC, London.
• Renfrew, A.C., 1973, Before Civilisation, the Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe, London: Pimlico. ISBN 0-7126-6593-5
• Renfrew, A.C. and Kenneth L. Cooke, eds. 1979 Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-586050-5ISBN 978-0-12-586050-5
• Renfrew, A.C. and Malcolm Wagstaff, eds., 1982, An Island Polity, the Archaeology of Exploitation in Melos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Renfrew, Colin, 1984, Approaches to Social Archeology, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-85224-481-9ISBN 0-85224-481-9
• Renfrew, A.C., ed. 1985, The Archaeology of Cult, the Sanctuary at Phylakopi, London: British School at Athens / Thames & Hudson.
• Colin Renfrew, Marija Gimbutas and Ernestine S. Elster, eds. 1986. Excavations at Sitagroi, a prehistoric village in northeast Greece. Vol. 1. Los Angeles : Institute of Archaeology, University of California.
• Renfrew, A.C., 1987, Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins, London: Pimlico. ISBN 0-7126-6612-5ISBN 0-7126-6612-5
• Renfrew, A.C. and Ezra B. W. Zubrow, eds. 1994, The ancient mind: elements of cognitive archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45620-3ISBN 978-0-521-45620-3
• Renfrew, A.C. and Paul Bahn, 1991, Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-28147-5ISBN 0-500-28147-5. (Sixth edition 2012)
• Renfrew, A.C., 2000, Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology, London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-3034-2ISBN 0-7156-3034-2
• Renfrew, A.C., 2003, Figuring It Out: The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists, London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05114-3ISBN 0-500-05114-3
• Ernestine S. Elster and Colin Renfrew, eds., 2003. Prehistoric Sitagroi: Excavations in Northeast Greece, 1968–1970. Vol. 2: The Final Report. Los Angeles, CA: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. Monumenta archaeologica 20.
• Renfrew, A.C., and Paul Bahn, eds. Archaeology: The Key Concepts. London: Routledge, 2005.
• Renfrew, A.C., and Paul Bahn, Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods and Practice, London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-84138-9ISBN 978-0-500-84138-9. (Fourth edition 2018).
• Renfrew, A.C., 2008, Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind, Modern Library. ISBN 0-679-64097-5ISBN 0-679-64097-5
• Matsumura S., Forster P. and Renfrew C., eds., 2008, Simulations, Genetics and Human Prehistory, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archeological Research. ISBN 978-1-902937-45-8ISBN 978-1-902937-45-8

Articles

• "Models of change in language and archaeology", Transactions of the Philological Society 87 (1989): 103–55.
• "Archaeology, genetics and linguistic diversity", Man 27 (1992): 445–78.
• "Time depth, convergence theory, and innovation in Proto-Indo-European: 'Old Europe' as a PIE linguistic area", Journal of Indo-European Studies 27 (1999): 257–93.
• "'Indo-European' designates languages: not pots and not institutions", Antiquity 79 (2005): 692–5.
• "Archaeogenetics", in Archaeology: The Key Concepts, eds. Colin Renfrew & Paul Bahn. London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 16–20.
• "Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, April 8, 2020