Colin Renfrew
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Master of Jesus College, Cambridge | |
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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 25 July 1937 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,
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.
Early life and education
Renfrew was educated at
Academic
In 1965, Renfrew was appointed to the post of lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Between 1968 and 1970, he directed excavations at Sitagroi, Greece. In the 1968 Sheffield Brightside by-election he unsuccessfully contested this parliamentary constituency on behalf of the Conservative Party. In that year he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, in 1970 was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and in 2000 elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
In 1972, Renfrew became Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton, succeeding Barry Cunliffe. During his time at Southampton he directed excavations at Quanterness in Orkney and Phylakopi on the island of Milos, Greece. In 1973, Renfrew published Before Civilisation: The Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe in which he challenged the assumption that prehistoric cultural innovation originated in the Near East and then spread to Europe. He also excavated with Marija Gimbutas at Sitagroi.
In 1980, Renfrew was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1981 he was elected to the
In 1987, he published Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of the Indo-European Origins, a book on the Proto-Indo-Europeans. His "Anatolian hypothesis" posited that this group lived 2,000 years before the Kurgans, in Anatolia, later diffusing to Greece, then Italy, Sicily, Corsica, the Mediterranean coast of France, Spain, and Portugal. Another branch migrated along the fertile river valleys of the Danube and Rhine into central and northern Europe.
He developed the
From 1987 to 1991, he co-directed excavations at Markiani on Amorgos and at Dhaskalio Kavos, Keros, Greece.
Renfrew's work in using the archaeological record as the basis for understanding the ancient mind was foundational to the field of evolutionary cognitive archaeology.[2][3] Renfrew and his student, Lambros Malafouris, coined the phrase neuroarchaeology to describe an archaeology of mind.[4][5]
In 1996, Renfrew formulated a sapient paradox, that can be formulated as ""why there was such a long gap between emergence of genetically and anatomically modern humans and the development of complex behaviors?"[6][7]
Renfrew served as
Positions, awards and accolades
- Fellow of the British Academy (1980)[8]
- Renfrew was created a Renfrew.[9]
- Foreign Associate to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 1996.[10]
- Balzan Prize, given in Prehistoric Archaeology for 2004.
- Chair, Managing Council for the British School at Athens, since 2004.
- Visiting Scholar, UCLA, 2005–06.
- Member of the American Philosophical Society since 2006.[11]
- Honorary degrees from the Universities of Sheffield, Athens, Southampton, Liverpool, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Kent, London and Lima.
Books
- 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 ISBN 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: ISBN 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 0-7126-6612-5
- Renfrew, A.C. and Ezra B. W. Zubrow, eds. 1994, The ancient mind: elements of cognitive archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45620-3
- Renfrew, A.C. and ISBN 0-500-28147-5. (Sixth edition 2012)[12]
- Renfrew, A.C., 2000, Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology, London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-3034-2
- Renfrew, A.C., 2003, Figuring It Out: The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists, London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05114-3
- 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 978-0-500-84138-9. (Fourth edition 2018).
- Renfrew, A.C., 2008, Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind, Modern Library. ISBN 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 978-1-902937-45-8
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[13]
See also
References
- ^ The Archaeological Field Club. "Alumni". archaeology.uk.com.
- .
- ISBN 9780521456203.
- S2CID 231810895.
- ISBN 9781902937519.
- . Retrieved 19 June 2022.
The paradox is that there was a gap of well over 50 000 years between the speciation and tectonic phases.
- doi:10.1641/B580212.
called the "sapient paradox," that some of the complex behaviors now associated with humans took a long time to develop even after the emergence in Africa of humans who were fully modern in the anatomical and genetic senses.
- ^ "Professor Lord Colin Renfrew of Kaimsthorn FBA". British AQcademy. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ "State Intelligence". The London Gazette. No. 52584. 27 June 1991. p. 9849.
- ^ "British Archaeologist To Speak At CU March 20". University of Colorado. Boulder. 11 March 1999. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ISBN 0-500-28147-5.
- PMID 32269081.
External links
- Renfrew's page at the McDonald Institute
- Biographical interviews from Web of Stories (video)
- Interview with Alan Macfarlane (video)
- 'Before Silk: Unsolved Mysteries of the Silk Road' by Colin Renfrew on YouTube(video)
- Lecture on looting and illicit antiquities (MP3)