Abstract
Who is Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn BA PhD ScD FSA FBA? The Lord had better be explained first. Distinguished British archaeologists have been knighted before there was Sir Mortimer Wheeler and Sir Max Mallowan; more recently, Sir John Boardman, the classical archaeologist and Greek-vase wizard who is professor at Oxford. And there have been peers who were archaeologists: Lord William Taylour who died a couple of years ago was a celebrated Mycenaean archaeologist. But Colin Renfrew is the first archaeologist in recent times, and probably ever, to have been made an English lord for who he is himself. As a member of the House of Lords, the upper house of the British Parliament, he is now a British legislator. He has always been interested in politics (see inset this page), and once fought Sheffield Brightside for the Conservatives; friends and contemporaries who chose politics for a full-time career rather he would be happy with Lord Renfrew as Minister for the Arts or for Higher Education (see inset from The Independenf).
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