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Subject: Re: Colin Renfrew passes away (2024-11-24)
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Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> British archaeologist Colin Renfrew has died.  In 1987, he originated
> the "Anatolian hypothesis" of the Proto-Indo-European dispersal,
> an idea that has remained a minority view.

Oh my. Bummer. Not all that familiar with his
Anatolian theory but come across his "Before
Civilisation: The Radiocarbon Revolution and
Prehistoric Europe" and his carbon dating work.

Once had occasion to meet and do some support
work for a former grad student of his who had
nothing but good to say about him.

I was insanely jealous he'd worked/for with a
proverbial Great Man.