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- Birth nameAndrew Colin Renfrew
- Colin Renfrew was born on July 25, 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees, England. He died on November 24, 2024 in Cambridge, England, UK.
- A pre-eminent British archaeologist of prehistoric civilizations including the Cycladic.
- In 1981 he was elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, a post he held until his retirement.
- He read Natural Sciences then Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University, graduating in 1962. In 1965 he completed his PhD thesis "Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of the Cyclades and their external relations.".
- In 1990 Renfrew was appointed as the founding Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
- Served in the Royal Air Force from 1956 to 1958.
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