These papers look at the increasingly influential role of social archaeology - an area in which Colin Renfrew has been a key player.

In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth–and gives an incisive, concise, and lively ...

This volume brings together contributors to that transformation from around the world, to honour Colin Renfrew with a series of key papers.

The papers in this volume, which have been written by colleagues and former students on the occasion of his retirement, relate to all of these subject areas, and together give some idea of the complexity of the issues raised by critical ...

In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia ...

Explores the archaeological evidence for the development of measuring activities in numerous ancient societies and the implications of these discoveries.

In Figuring It Out, Colin Renfrew investigates the profound convergence between the two disciplines, drawing illuminating parallels between the way the modern artist seeks to understand the world by acting upon it, and the way the ...

An invaluable resource, providing an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the key terms used in this discipline today.

The most authoritative and up-to-date archaeology textbook, revised and updated, and now in full color.