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Colin Renfrew

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Also known as C. Renfrew, A. C. Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn

British archaeologist (1937–2024)

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Andrew Colin Renfrew (1937–2024) was a British archaeologist, anthropologist, politician, and university teacher. Born in Stockton-on-Tees, he held a doctorate and worked at the University of Sheffield, University of Southampton, and University of Cambridge. He served as Master and research fellow, and was a member of the Conservative Party. Renfrew was educated at St John's College and the British School at Athens, and spoke English and Greek.

His academic work focused on archaeology and politics, with publications including *Excavations at Sitagroi*, *British prehistory*, and *Trade in Illicit Antiquities*. He received the Balzan Prize and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Renfrew was a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the British Academy. He worked in Cambridge and London.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1937
Works
99

Top works

  • Excavations at Sitagroi
  • Trajectory discontinuity and morphogenesis
  • Loot, legitimacy and ownership
  • British prehistory
  • Trade in Illicit Antiquities

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Scotland
Active from
1955-04-06
free improvisationinstrumentalpiano

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
32
Total plays
3,247

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Colin+Renfrew">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

    · 2014 · cited 21,631x

  2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,860x

  3. RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

    · 2011 · cited 19,952x

  4. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,776x

  5. Operating Characteristics of a Rank Correlation Test for Publication Bias

    · 1994 · cited 14,433x

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Quotes

  • “Many linguists have commented that these proposed dates of separation are 'too early,' but how . . . do they know this, or judge this?”
  • ““[This] episode of elite dominance which brought the indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family to India (…) may have been as early as the floruit of the Indus civilization (…)””
  • “As far as I can see there is nothing in the Hymns of the Rig Veda which demonstrates that the Vedic-speaking population were intrusive to the area: this comes rather from a historical assumption of the "coming of the Indo-Europeans." .. Nothing implies that the Aryans were strangers there.”
  • “This hypothesis that early Indo-European languages were spoken in north India with Pakistan and on the Iranian plateau at the sixth millennium BC has the merit of harmonizing symmetrically with the theory for the origin of the Indo-European languages in Europe. It also emphasizes the continuity in the Indus Valley and adjacent areas from the early neolithic through to the floruit of the Indus Valley civilization.”

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Key facts

Preceded by
Glyn Daniel
Succeeded by
Graeme Barker
Born
Andrew Colin Renfrew , ( 1937-07-25 ) 25 July 1937, Stockton-on-Tees , England
Died
24 November 2024 (2024-11-24) (aged 87), Cambridge , England
Party
Conservative
Education
St Albans School, Hertfordshire
Alma mater
St John's College, Cambridge
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch
Royal Air Force
Service years
1956–1958

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Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (25 July 1937 – 24 November 2024) was 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.

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