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Marcial Tenreiro-Bermudez<p>Archaeoethnologica: Colin Renfrew (1937-2024) </p><p>Sit tibi terrae levis 😥</p><p>+INFO in: <br><a href="https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/11/colin-renfrew-1937-2024.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeoethnologica.blogspot.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2024/11/colin-renfrew-1937-2024.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Obituary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obituary</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Archaeologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeologist</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/ColinRenfrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColinRenfrew</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/AncientBlueSky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientBlueSky</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/ArchaeologicaTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArchaeologicaTheory</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prehistory</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>On the occasion of the death of world famous <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neolithic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeologist</span></a> and Tory peer <a href="https://c.im/tags/ColinRenfrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColinRenfrew</span></a> we have a few things to say.</p><p>Looking down at us from the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cambridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cambridge</span></a> high table, he made some severe misjudgements. His <a href="https://c.im/tags/sapientparadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sapientparadox</span></a> was an attempt to argue that while <a href="https://c.im/tags/Homosapiens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homosapiens</span></a> bodies evolved in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a>, somehow we didn't get smart till we hit <a href="https://c.im/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>. </p><p>Also highly questionable was his attitude to the <a href="https://c.im/tags/cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cognition</span></a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huntergatherers</span></a> who, so he said, 'lacked fully developed mind'. According to him, they needed to borrow language from farmers. </p><p>We had some big political and social institutional differences with Renfrew. Our own Chris Knight goes through the whole context in a review below</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Renfrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Renfrew</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palaeolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeolithic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humanorigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanorigins</span></a></p><p>JRAI 2002, 8: 807-8<br>A devastating review by Chris Knight of the Runciman collection 'The Origin of Human Social Institutions'</p>
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