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A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO THE CALIBRATION OF FLOATING TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES USING RADIOCARBON DATES

scientific article published in 1972

ALTERNATIVE MODELS FOR EXCHANGE AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION

scientific article published in 1977

ANTIQUITY and the scope of archaeology

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in October 2002

America Past, America Present: Genes and Languages in the Americas and Beyond

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An Interview With Lewis Binford

Ancient Interactions: East and West in Eurasia

scientific article published in 2002

Anthropology. Where bacteria and languages concur

scientific article

Archaeogenetics--towards a 'new synthesis'?

scientific article published in February 2010

Archaeological View

journal article; published in Nature on 1973-7

Archaeologists entertain

journal article; published in Nature on 1974-3

Archaeology

book published in 1996

Archaeology & Language

book by Colin Renfrew

Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins

scientific article published in December 1988

Archaeology and the Methodology of Science

Archaeology and the Microscope. The Scientific Examination of Archaeological Evidence, by Leo Biek with a Foreword by Sir Mortimer Wheeler. London: Lutterworth Press 1963. 287 pp., 26 pls. (2 in colour). 45s

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Archaeology, Genetics and Linguistic Diversity

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Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice

book published in 1991

Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice

scientific article published in 1992

Archéologie et langage : éloge du scepticisme

At the Edge of Knowability: Towards a Prehistory of Languages

scientific article published in April 2000

Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands. Teil 3: Niedersachsen-Westfalen. By Sprockhoff Ernst, edited by Körner Gerhard. Vol. 1 (Textband), 162 pages, 36 figures, 61 plates. Vol. 2 (Atlasband), 179 pages of plans. Römisch-Germanischen Kommission/Rud

Aşvan 1968–1972: An Interim Report. By David French with Behin Askoy, Steven Diamant, Gerald Hall, Svend Helms, Gordon Hillman, Sam McBride, Stephen Mitchell, Anthony McNicoll, Sebastian Payne, Alwyn Riddell, Malcolm Wagstaff, Matina Weinstein, an

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Before Babel: Speculations on the Origins of Linguistic Diversity

Before civilization: the radiocarbon revolution and prehistoric Europe

Brief reply to Leo S. Klejn

British Faience Beads Reconsidered

Bruce Trigger: Time and traditions. Essays in archaeological interpretation. Edinburgh: University Press, 1978. 273 pp. £ 5.00

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in July 1979

Caveat Emptor - (R.F.) Rhodes (ed.) The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities. Professional, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives. Pp. xii + 175, ills. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Paper, US$25. ISBN: 978-0-268

scientific article published in 2009

Celtic from the West: Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language and Literature, edited by Barry Cunliffe & John T. Koch, 2010. Oxford: Oxbow Books; ISBN 978-1-84217-410-4 hardback £40 & US$80; viii +384 pp., 127 figs

Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

Christos Doumas: Early Cycladic Art: The N. P. Goulandris Collection. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1969. 184 pp., 422 pls. (3 in colour). £6 5s. ($15.00)

Close-Proximity Analysis: A Rapid Method for the Ordering of Archaeological Materials

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Colonialism and Megalithismus

Comment on the Paper by David Gill

scientific article published on 21 December 2010

Comments on archaeology into the 1990s

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in January 1989

Corded Ware and Globular Amphorae North-East of the Carpathians. By Tadeusz Sulimirski. 12 × 9½. Pp. 227 + 24 pls. + 35 figs. London: Athlone Press, 1968. £4. 10s

Correction to: Origins, admixture and founder lineages in European Roma

scientific article

Correction: Population Differentiation of Southern Indian Male Lineages Correlates with Agricultural Expansions Predating the Caste System.

scientific article published on 26 July 2013

Creighton Gabel: Analysis of Prehistoric Economic Patterns. New York etc.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. 69 pp. $.75 (paper)

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David L. Clarke (ed.): Models in archaeology. London: Methuen, 1972. 1079 pp., 242 figs., 5 pls. £16.00

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in June 1974

David L. Clarke: Analytical Archaeology. London: Methuen, 1968. 704 pp., 170 figs. £7 7s.Sally R. Binford and Lewis R. Binford (eds.): New Perspectives in Archaeology. Chicago: Aldine Press, 1968. 383 pp., 34 figs., $9.75

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in September 1969

Demography and archaeology

scientific article published in April 2009

Die Funde der frühen Dimini-zeit aus der Arapi-Magula, Thessalien. By H. Hauptmann and V. Miločić. 134 pages, 6 figures, 36 plates. Beiträge zur Ur-und Frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie des Mittelmeer-Kulturraumes für das Institut für Ur- und F

Die deutsche Ausgrabungen auf der Otzaki-Magula in Thessalien: das frühe Neolithikum. By Johanna Milojčič-v. Zumbusch and V. Milojčič. Vol. I, 152 pages; Vol. 2, 78 pages, 75 plates, II separate plans in pocket. Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgesich

Discontinuities in the Endogenous Change of Settlement Pattern

Divided We Stand: Aspects of Archaeology and Information

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in January 1983

Don Robins: Circles of silence. London: Souvenir Press, 1985. 144 pp., 32 colour pls., 42 b/w pls., 42 figs. £14.95

Dumitru Berciu: Romania before Burébista. (Vol. 57, Ancient Peoples and Places). London: Thames and Hudson, 1967. 211 pp., 73 pl. 42s

Erosion and prehistory in melos: a preliminary note

scientific article published in September 1976

Evolution. Mother tongue and Y chromosomes

scientific article

Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece

scientific article published in 1994

Excavations at Sitagroi, a Prehistoric Village in Northeast Greece

scholarly article by H. Arthur Bankoff et al published July 1989 in American Antiquity

Frank Hole and Mary Shaw: Computer Analysis of Chronological Seriation (Rice University Studies, Vol. 53, no. 3). Houston, Texas: William Marsh Rice University. 166 pp. $2.25

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Frank Hole, Kent V. Flannery and James A. Neeley: Prehistory and human ecology of the Deh Luran Plain, an early village sequence from Khuzistan, Iran. (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, no. 1.) Ann Arbor, 1969. 483 pp., 4

article by Colin Renfrew published March 1971 in Antiquity

From molecular genetics to archaeogenetics

scientific article published in April 2001

Further Analysis of Near Eastern Obsidians ⬇️

Genome-wide signatures of male-mediated migration shaping the Indian gene pool

scientific article (publication date: 21 May 2015)

Glozel and the two cultures

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Grahame Clark: Symbols of excellence. Cambridge: University Press, 1986. 126 pp., 12 pls. £12.95

Greece in the Bronze Age. By Vermeule Emily. Pp. 406, pls. 48. University of Chicago Press, 1964. $10 or 72s

Human destinies and ultimate causes

scientific article published in Nature

Introduction

scientific article published in October 2008

Introduction. The sapient mind: archaeology meets neuroscience

scientific article published in June 2008

Irving Rouse: Introduction to prehistory: a systematic approach. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. 318 pp., 14 figs., 6 tables. £3.80

Is there a Prehistory of Linguistics?

scientific article published in October 1995

Keith Branigan: Copper and Bronze Working in Early Bronze Age Crete. (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. XIX.) Lund: 1968. 122 pp., 13 figs. Sw. Crs. 75

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in March 1969

Keros: Dhaskalio and Kavos, early Cycladic Stronghold and Ritual Centre. Preliminary Report of 2006 and 2007 seasons

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Kings, tree rings and the Old World

scientific article published in Nature

LOOTING AND THE WORLD'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE: The Inadequate Response

scientific article (publication date: October 2005)

Legend of a Cataclysm

scientific article published in Nature

Linguistics on the Move

Lucy Goodison. Death, women and the sun. 261 pages, 124 plates. 1989. London: Institute of Classical studies (Bulletin supplement 53); ISBN 900587-56-3, ISSN 0076-0749 paperback £40

Making sense of the past

scientific article published in Nature

Malta and the calibrated radiocarbon chronology

Maltese Prehistory

journal article; published in Nature on 1971-5

Mapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia

scientific article published on 06 January 2017

Marija Gimbutas: Bronze Age Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe. The Hague: Mouton, 1965. 681 pp., 462 figs., 115 pls. About £14

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Marking time

journal article; published in Nature on 1976-9

Mathematics and Computers in Archaeology. By Doran J. E. and Hodson F. R.. 381 pages, 104 figures Edinburgh University Press, 1975. Price not indicated

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in December 1977

Megalithic Lunations

journal article; published in Nature on 1971-4

Megaliths: perspective improves; central mystery remains

article by Colin Renfrew published September 2000 in Antiquity

Mere platonic invention?

scientific article published in Nature

Mitochondrial DNA and the origins of the domestic horse

scientific article

Models in Prehistory

Monumental Prehistory

journal article; published in Nature on 1973-6

Native American Y chromosomes in Polynesia: the genetic impact of the Polynesian slave trade

scientific article published on 18 March 2003

Neolithic mitochondrial haplogroup H genomes and the genetic origins of Europeans

scientific article

Neuroscience, evolution and the sapient paradox: the factuality of value and of the sacred

scientific article (publication date: 12 June 2008)

New configurations in old world archaeology

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in October 1970

Norman Yoffee & George L. Cowgill (ed.). The collapse of ancient states and civilizations. 333 pages including text figures. 1988. Tucson: University of Arizona Press: ISBN 0-8165-1049-0 hardback

Obsidian and Early Cultural Contact in the Near East ⬇️

scientific article published in December 1966

Obsidian in the Western Mediterranean: Characterisation by Neutron Activation Analysis and Optical Emission Spectroscopy

scientific article published in December 1976

Open Area, Open Data: Advances in Reflexive Archaeological Practice

scientific article published on 6 January 2021

Origins Of Today's Cuisine

scientific article published in Nature

Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory, by Clive Gamble, 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN-13 978-521-86002-4 hardback £50 & US$85; ISBN-13 978-0-521-67749-3 paperback £16.99 & US$29.99; xiii+352 pp., 40 figs

Origins of the domestic horse ⬇️

scientific article published on October 12, 2012

Palaeodemography

journal article; published in Nature on 1972-6

Parallel evolution of genes and languages in the Caucasus region

scientific article

Pat Getz-Perziosi. Sculptors of the Cyclades: individual and tradition in the third millennium BC. 254 pages including 53 text figures, 11 colour and 50 black & white plates 1987. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; ISBN 0-472-10067-X hardback.R

Paul Courbin: Qu'est-ce que l'archéologie? Essai sur la nature de la recherche archéo-logique. Paris: Payot, 1982, 238 pp., 5 figs. Frs. 80 (paperback)

Peter Haggett: Locational Analysis in Human Geography. London: Edward Arnold, 1965. 339 pp., numerous text fig. 40s.Richard J. Chorley and Peter Haggett (eds.): Models in Geography. London: Methuen, 1967. 816 pp., 10 pls., numerous text figs. £6

Peter Warren: Myrtos: an early bronze age settlement in Crete. (British School of Archaeology at Athens supplementary volume no. 7.) London: Thames and Hudson for British School of Archaeology at Athens, 1972. 355 pp., including 129 figs., 84 pls. £

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in December 1973

Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Population Differentiation of Southern Indian Male Lineages Correlates with Agricultural Expansions Predating the Caste System ⬇️

scientific article published on November 28, 2012

Prehistoric Europe. By Timothy Champion, Clive Gamble, Stephen Shennan and Alasdair Whittle. 359 pp., 197 figs, 16 tables. London, Academic Press (London) Inc., 1984. Price £30.00 (hardback), £14.50 (paperback). ⬇️

scientific article published in 1986

Prehistoric Religions in the Aegean

Problems in European Prehistory

scientific article published in December 1980

Quanterness, radiocarbon and the Orkney cairns

Radiocarbon: Calibration and Prehistory. Edited by Watkins Trevor. 147 pages, 23 figures. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1975. Price £3·50

article by Colin Renfrew published December 1977 in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, London

Reply to Sánchez-Pacheco et al., Chookajorn, and Mavian et al.: Explaining phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Revealing the prehistoric settlement of Australia by Y chromosome and mtDNA analysis

scientific article

Reviews of Books

Revolution Fulfilled? Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, a Generation On. Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, edited by Ian Hodder. (New Directions in Archaeology Series.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 (2nd edition); ISBN-13: 9780521

scientific article published on 17 May 2007

Robert W. Ehrich (ed.): Chronologies in Old World Archaeology. Chicago: University Press, 1965. 557 pp., 88 figs. $7.50 (paperback $5.00)

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in December 1966

Ruth Tringham: Hunters, fishers and farmers of Eastern Europe 6000–3000 BC. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1971. 240 pp., 12 pl., 41 figs. £2•50 cloth; £1•50 paper

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Sitagroi, radiocarbon and the prehistory of south-east Europe

Systems Collapse as Social Transformation: Catastrophe and Anastrophe in Early State Societies

scientific article published in 1979

The Autonomy of the South-East European Copper Age

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in February 1970

The British Museum at 250

The Burnt House at Siitagroi

article by Colin Renfrew published June 1970 in Antiquity

The Characterization of Obsidian and its application to the Mediterranean Region ⬇️

scientific article published in December 1964

The Copper Age of Peninsular Italy and the Aegean

The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals

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The Early Copper and Tiszapolgár Culture in the Carpathian Basin. By Bognár-Kutzián Ida. 240 pages, 74 plates, 1 separate map. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1972. Price £7

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The Eruption of Thera and Minoan Crete

scientific article published in 1979

The Explanation of Culture Change: Models in Prehistory

scientific article published in 1976

The Great Tradition versus the Great Divide: Archaeology as Anthropology? ⬇️

scientific article published in July 1980

The Henge Monuments: Ceremony and Society in Prehistoric Britain

The Identity of Europe in Prehistoric Archaeology

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in September 1994

The Language of the Goddess. By Marija Gimbutas. 388 pp., 490 illustrations, 12 maps, and 7 pages of colour plates. London: Thames and Hudson, 1989. £29.95. ⬇️

scientific article published in 1991

The Mycenaean sanctuary at Phylakopi

article published in 1978

The Origins of Indo-European Languages

The Stone Age and the Early Bronze Age in Cyprus. By Porphyrios Dikaios and James R. Stewart. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Vol. IV, Part I a. 12 × 8½. Pp. xlv+401+156 pls.+ 105 figs. Lund, 1962. No price given

The Tree-Ring Calibration of Radiocarbon: An Archaeological Evaluation

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in December 1970

The coming of the Aryans to Iran and India and the cultural and ethnic identity of the Dāsas. By Asko Parpola. (Studia Orientalia, Vol. 64.) pp. 195–302, 33 figs. Helsinki, The Finnish Oriental Society, 1988

The oldest maritime sanctuary? Dating the sanctuary at Keros and the Cycladic Early Bronze Age

The petrological characterisation of late Bronze Age ceramics from Knossos and Mycenae

scholarly article by J.A. Riley published in January 1981

The potential contribution of molecular genetics towards the linguistic and population history of the Mediterranean islands

scientific article published on 25 July 2002

They ride horses, don't they?: Mallory on the Indo-Europeans

Thoughts on radiocarbon dating

To Illustrate the Monuments: Essays on Archaeology Presented to Stuart Piggott. Edited by J. V. S. Megaw. 25 × 19 cm. Pp. 332 incl. numerous pls. and figs. London: Thames & Hudson, 1976. £15·00.

Tracking prehistoric migrationsJean Manco. Ancestral journeys: the peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings. 312 pages, 123 colour and b&w illustrations, 2 tables. 2013. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-05179-8 hardback £19.95

Trade in Illicit Antiquities: The Destruction of the World's Archaeological Heritage

scientific article published in 2001

Trajectory Discontinuity and Morphogenesis: The Implications of Catastrophe Theory for Archaeology

scholarly article by Colin Renfrew published in April 1978

Transformations

scientific article published in 1979

Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change

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Tree-ring Calibration of Radiocarbon Dates and the Chronology of Ancient Egypt

scientific article published in 1973

Wessex as a social question

Word of Minos: the Minoan Contribution to Mycenaean Greek and the Linguistic Geography of the Bronze Age Aegean

scientific article published in October 1998

World linguistic diversity.

scientific article

Y chromosomal evidence for the origins of oceanic-speaking peoples

scientific article

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