COLIN RENFREW has been Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge since 1981, and more recently Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. He is Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and a Life Peer.
Among Lord Renfrew's many books are Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice; Past Worlds: The Times Atlas of Archaeology; Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins; The Prehistory of Orkney, Editor; Approaches to Social Archaeology; Towards an Archaeology of Mind; Emergence of Civilization, the Cyclades and the Aegain in the Third Millennium.