Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Professor Emeritus Colin Renfrew passed away in Cambridge, UK.He was a giant of world archaeology and one of the last representatives of a generation of polymaths who made a significant contribution not only to archaeology but also to other fields of science.The role of C. Renfrew in the development of modern archaeology and application of natural sciences to it (i.e.geoarchaeology) in the 1960s-2020s is significant and deserves careful analysis, and this should be done in the near future.Andrew Colin Renfrew was born on 25 July 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, UK.He showed an interest in archaeology from an early age; at 13 he took part in the excavations of the Roman settlement at Canterbury that were led by Sheppard Frere, the leader of the study of Roman Britain (see Frere 1987).After National Service in the British Army (1956)(1957)(1958), Renfrew entered the University of Cambridge in 1958, where he read natural sciences, archaeology, and anthropology at St. John's College.He was fortunate to be a student of a group of outstanding British educators and researchers:
Source: Radiocarbon
DOI: 10.1017/rdc.2025.25
Author: Yaroslav Kuzmin
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4410146461