Colin Renfrew

**Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew o Kaimsthorn**,  (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. 
* Renfrew, A.C. and Kenneth L. Cooke, eds. 1979 *Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change*. New York: Academic Press. ISBN&nbsp;
* 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&nbsp;
* Renfrew, A.C., ed. 1985, * The Archaeology of Cult, the Sanctuary at Phylakopi*, London: British School at Athens / Thames &amp;amp; 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&nbsp;
* Renfrew, A.C. and Ezra B. W. Zubrow, eds. 1994, *The ancient mind: elements of cognitive archaeology*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN&nbsp;
* Renfrew, A.C. and Paul Bahn, 1991, *Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice*, London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN&nbsp;. (Sixth edition 2012)
* Renfrew, A.C., 2000, *Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology*, London: Duckworth. ISBN&nbsp;
* Renfrew, A.C., 2003, *Figuring It Out: The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists*, London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN&nbsp;
* 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&nbsp;. (Fourth edition 2018).
* Renfrew, A.C., 2008, *Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind*, Modern Library. ISBN&nbsp;
* Matsumura S., Forster P. and Renfrew C., eds., 2008, *Simulations, Genetics and Human Prehistory*, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archeological Research. ISBN&nbsp;

## 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.&nbsp;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

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