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Colin Renfrew
Sign in to saveAlso known as C. Renfrew, A. C. Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
British archaeologist (1937–2024)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1937
- Works
- 99
Top works
- Excavations at Sitagroi
- Trajectory discontinuity and morphogenesis
- Loot, legitimacy and ownership
- British prehistory
- Trade in Illicit Antiquities
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Scotland
- Active from
- 1955-04-06
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 32
- Total plays
- 3,247
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,631x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
- RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,952x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- Operating Characteristics of a Rank Correlation Test for Publication Bias
· 1994 · cited 14,433x
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Quotes
- “Many linguists have commented that these proposed dates of separation are 'too early,' but how . . . do they know this, or judge this?”
- ““[This] episode of elite dominance which brought the indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family to India (…) may have been as early as the floruit of the Indus civilization (…)””
- “As far as I can see there is nothing in the Hymns of the Rig Veda which demonstrates that the Vedic-speaking population were intrusive to the area: this comes rather from a historical assumption of the "coming of the Indo-Europeans." .. Nothing implies that the Aryans were strangers there.”
- “This hypothesis that early Indo-European languages were spoken in north India with Pakistan and on the Iranian plateau at the sixth millennium BC has the merit of harmonizing symmetrically with the theory for the origin of the Indo-European languages in Europe. It also emphasizes the continuity in the Indus Valley and adjacent areas from the early neolithic through to the floruit of the Indus Valley civilization.”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Glyn Daniel
- Succeeded by
- Graeme Barker
- Born
- Andrew Colin Renfrew , ( 1937-07-25 ) 25 July 1937, Stockton-on-Tees , England
- Died
- 24 November 2024 (2024-11-24) (aged 87), Cambridge , England
- Party
- Conservative
- Education
- St Albans School, Hertfordshire
- Alma mater
- St John's College, Cambridge
- Allegiance
- United Kingdom
- Branch
- Royal Air Force
- Service years
- 1956–1958
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (25 July 1937 – 24 November 2024) was a British archaeologist, paleolinguist and Conservative peer noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, neuroarchaeology, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites.
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