Example sentences for: renfrew

How can you use “renfrew” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The choice between the prevailing theory and Renfrew's depends on whether one accepts a “wave” theory, first promulgated more than a hundred years ago by Johnanes Schmidt, a German linguist, or one of indigenous development.

  • I have no quarrel with Renfrew's theory—notwithstanding the generally received wisdom that has placed the homeland north of the Black Sea region and the Volga steppes.

  • Using the evidence available, Renfrew contends that the original Indo-European language, closely related to Hittite, separated after 6500 BC, with the IE languages of western Europe developing from western Anatolia and those of Iran, India, and Pakistan from the eastern division.

  • It is difficult to place all the blame on Renfrew, for his editor should have noticed the lack of coherence.

  • Renfrew accepts the wave theory, and in the last two thirds of Archaeology & Language he sets forth his arguments in its favor.


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