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Professor Lord Colin Renfrew of Kaimsthorn FBA

Prehistoric archaeology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1980
Year of death
2024
Subjects
Archaeology
Sections
Archaeology
Website
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/directory/acr10

Last posts

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Senior Fellow

University of Cambridge Disney Professor of Archaeology

Past appointments

The University of Sheffield Lecturer, Reader

1970 -

University of Southampton Professor of Archaeology

1970 -

Jesus College University of Cambridge Master

1970 -

University of Cambridge Disney Professor of Archaeology

1970 -

University of Southampton Senior Fellow

1970 -

Publications

The emergence of civilisation: the Cyclades and the Aegean in the 3rd millennium BC 1972

Science and Stonehenge _PBA_ 1997

Archaeology: the widening debate 2002

Before civilisation: the radiocarbon revolution and prehistoric Europe 1973

Archaeology and language: the puzzle of the Indo-European origins 1987

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Timothy Alexander Insoll FBA

Islamic archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula; archaeology of African indigenous religions; West African Iron Age archaeology; archaeological approaches to rituals and religions

Timothy Alexander Insoll FBA

Dr Alison Sheridan FBA

Prehistorian, focusing on the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland and specialising in ceramics, stone axeheads and jewellery of jet and jet-like materials, gold, amber and faience

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Professor John Ray FBA

Egyptology

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