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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 Koji Mizoguchi FBA

The archaeological study of social relations and their transformation by investigating communication as the minimum basic unit of social phenomena; investigating the linkage between archaeological practices and contemporary society

Koji Mizoguchi FBA

Professor Daniel Potts FBA

The archaeology and history of the Near East, particularly the Iranian world, from antiquity to the pre-modern era

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Professor Robert Foley FBA

Human evolution: the evolutionary ecology of extinct hominins; the evolution of human behaviour and culture; prehistory and archaeology of early human populations; evolutionary theory in archaeology and anthropology.

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