Colin Renfrew

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  • Renfrew, A.C. and Kenneth L. Cooke, eds. 1979 Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change. New York: Academic Press. 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: Edinburgh University Press. 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 Paul Bahn, 1991, Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, London: Thames & Hudson. 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
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    2. Renfrew, Colin (1982). Towards an Archaeology of Mind: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Cambridge on 30th November 1982. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1080/00665983.1984.11077826.
    3. Renfrew, Colin (1994). "Towards a Cognitive Archaeology". In Renfrew, Colin; Zubrow, Ezra B W (eds.). In The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 3–12. ISBN   9780521456203.
    4. Malafouris, Lambros; Renfrew, Colin (2008). "Introduction". Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 18 (3): 381–385. doi:10.1017/s0959774308000425. ISSN   0959-7743. S2CID   231810895.
    5. Malafouris, Lambros; Renfrew, Colin, eds. (2010). The Cognitive Life of Things: Recasting the Boundaries of the Mind. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. ISBN   9781902937519.
    6. Donald, Merlin (21 January 2009). "The sapient paradox: can cognitive neuroscience solve it?". Brain. 132 (3): 820–824. doi: 10.1093/brain/awn290 . Retrieved 19 June 2022. The paradox is that there was a gap of well over 50 000 years between the speciation and tectonic phases.
    7. Renfrew, Colin (1 February 2008). "Solving the "Sapient Paradox"". BioScience. 58 (2): 171–172. 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.
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    13. Forster, Peter; Forster, Lucy; Renfrew, Colin; Forster, Michael (8 April 2020). "Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (17): 9241–9243. Bibcode:2020PNAS..117.9241F. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004999117 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   7196762 . PMID   32269081.
    The Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
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    Professor Renfrew in 2018
    Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
    In office
    1986–1996
    Academic offices
    Preceded by Disney Professor of Archaeology, Cambridge University
    1981–2004
    Succeeded by
    Preceded by Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
    1986–1996
    Succeeded by
    Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
    Preceded by Gentlemen
    Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
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