Colin Renfrew

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First Name:	Colin
Surname:	Renfrew
Wikidata Identifier:	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q335189
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Monographs:

Title	Author	Year of Publication
Antiquity and Man: essays in honour of Glyn Daniel	Editor	1981
Approaches to social archaeology reprints of papers 1972-81	Author	1984
Archaeology and language: the puzzle of Indo-European origins	Author	1987
Archaeology: the widening debate	Issue editor	2002
Archaeology: the key concepts	Issue editor, Editor	2005
Archaeology: theories, methods and practice	Author	1991
Archaeology: theories, methods and practice	Author	2000
Archaeology: theories, methods and practice	Author	2004
Before civilisation: the radiocarbon revolution and prehistoric Europe	Author	1973
British prehistory: a new outline	Issue editor	1974
Examining the farming/language dispersal hypothesis	Issue editor	2002
Figuring it out: What are we? Where to we come from?; The parallel visions of artists and archaeologists	Author	2003
Investigations in Orkney	Author	1979
Peer polity interaction and socio-political change	Issue editor	1986
Problems in European prehistory	Author	1979
Ranking, resource and exchange; aspects of the archaeology of early European society	Issue editor	1982
Social archaeology: an inaugural lecture delivered at the University, 20th March 1973	Author	1973
The Explanation of Culture Change	Editor	1973
The explanation of culture change: models in prehistory	Issue editor	1973
The megalithic monuments of western Europe. The latest evidence presented by nine leading authorities	Issue editor	1983
The prehistory of Orkney	Issue editor	1985
Theory and explanation in archaeology. The Southampton Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, 1980	Issue editor	1982
Towards an archaeology of mind: an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 30 November 1982	Author	1982
Transformation: mathematical approaches to culture change	Issue editor	1979

Articles/Chapters:

Title	Role	Year of Publication
A meeting of minds: art and archaeology	Author	2004
A statistical approach to the calibration of floating tree-ring chronologies using radiocarbon dates	Author	1971
ANTIQUITY and the scope of archaeology	Author	2002
An interview with Lewis Binford	Author	1987
Approaching the past	Author	1985
Archaeology and language: the puzzle of Indo-European origins	Author	1988
Archaeology and the methodology of science review-article on Jane H Kelley & Marsha P Hanen (Univ New Mexico Press, 1988)	Author	1989
Archaeology at English Heritage work of Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee	Author	1985
At the edge of knowability: towards a prehistory of languages	Author	2000
Autonomy of the South-East European Copper Age	Author	1969
Becoming human; the archaeological challenge	Author	2006
Before Babel: speculations on the origins of linguistic diversity	Author	1991
Beyond a subsistence economy: the evolution of social organization in prehistoric Europe	Issue editor	1974
Brief reply to Leo S Klejn	Author	2006
British faience beads reconsidered	Author	1970
Calibration of the radiocarbon curve	Author	1974
Colonialism and megalithismus	Author	1967
Commodification and institution in group-oriented and individualizing societies	Author	2001
Dating a settlement pattern by thermoluminescence: the burnt mounds of Orkney	Author	1976
Divided we stand: aspects of archaeology and information publication, retrieval, cognitive archaeology	Author	1983
Foreword	Author	2000
From social to cognitive archaeology: an interview with Colin Renfrew	Author	2001
Genetics and language in contemporary archaeology	Author	2002
Geography, archaeology and environment interdisciplinary collaboration	Author	1983
Glozel	Author	1975
Models in prehistory	Author	1967
More on models	Author	1969
New configurations in Old World archaeology	Author	1969
On 'Archaeology and language': reply to Barker	Author	1989
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and evaluation: a case study from Orkney	Author	1976
Problems of the radiocarbon calendar and its calibration	Author	1974
Quanterness, radiocarbon and the Orkney cairns	Author	1976
Rude stone monuments in Europe	Author	1981
Saints of Wessex?	Author	1974
Science and Stonehenge	Author	1997
Space, time, and man	Author	1981
Special section; steps to a 'neuroarchaeology' of mind, Part 1	Author	2008
Stemming the flood of looted antiquities	Author	1997
The British Museum at 250	Author	2003
The Great Tradition versus the Great Divide - archaeology as anthropology?	Author	1980
The Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Treasure Act; protecting the archaeology of England and Wales?	Author contributing	2010
The catalogues of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset	Author	1999
The domestication and exploitation of plants and animals	Author	1967
The fallacy of the `good collector' of looted antiquities	Author	2000
The history of 14C calibration	Author	1972
The identity of Europe in prehistoric archaeology	Author	1995
The origins of Indo-European languages	Author	1989
The radiocarbon calendar recalibrated too soon?	Author	1973
The social archaeology of megalithic monuments	Author	1983
The tree-ring calibration of radiocarbon: an archaeological evaluation	Author	1970
They ride horses, don't they?: Mallory on the Indo-Europeans	Author	1989
Thoughts on radiocarbon dating	Author	1971
Trade and culture process in European prehistory	Author	1969
Trajectory discontinuity and morphogenesis: the implications of catastrophe theory for archaeology	Author	1978
Tree-ring calibration of radiocarbon dates and the chronology of ancient Egypt	Author	1973
Varna Bulgaria and the social context of early metallurgy	Author	1978
Wessex as a social question	Author	1973
Wessex without Mycenae	Author	1969
What's new in archaeology? developments in dating, processual archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, etc, over 3 decades	Author	1985
Where did it all go wrong?	Author	2007
`Indo-European' designates languages: not pots and not institutions	Author	2005