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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

Dr Leonardo López Luján FBA

The politics, religion, and art of Pre-Columbian urban societies in Central Mexico; the history and development of Mesoamerican archaeology

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Professor John Ray FBA

Egyptology

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Professor Melanie Giles FBA

Iron Age communities of Britain, north-western Europe and Scandinavia; art, technology and material culture; mortuary archaeology, grave goods and burial ethics; creative practice with museums; antiquarianism

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