David Frankel is Emeritus Professor in Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Archaeology and History at

La Trobe University La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora. The university was established in 1964, becoming the third university in the state of Victoria a ...

. Frankel studied archaeology at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's ...

(BA (Hons) 1970, MA (Hons) 1973) and

Gothenburg University The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 s ...

Sweden (PhD), where he specialised in Cypriot prehistory. He worked in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

(1975–78) before returning to Australia in 1978 to take up a lectureship at La Trobe University. As a student he excavated in New Zealand and Israel as well as

Irrawang Pottery In 1833–56 James King established and ran a pottery at Irrawang in the lower Hunter Region in New South Wales (the site is now known as the Grahamstown Dam). The site of the Irrawang Pottery was excavated from August 1967 by students and vol ...

and

Elizabeth Farm Elizabeth Farm is an historic estate located at 70 Alice Street, Rosehill, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Elizabeth Farm was the family home of wool pioneer, John and his wife Elizabeth Macarthur. The estate was commenced in ...

House in

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and participated in two seasons of Sydney University’s excavations at Zagora in Greece. Frankel was elected a Fellow of the

Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. It operates as an independent not-for-profit organisation partly funded by the Australia ...

in 1993, and served on the Humanities Panel of the Australian Research Council (1996–98). He was awarded the Prime Minister’s Centenary Award for services to Australia society and the humanities in 2003 and joint Editor-in-Chief of ''Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology''. In 2015 he was awarded the Australian Archaeological Association's Rhys Jones Medal for outstanding contributions to the discipline. His research interests include Australian Aboriginal archaeology with particular reference to south-eastern Australia and the archaeology of the

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second prin ...

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...

having excavated in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

Moonlight Head Moonlight Head is a locality located on the Great Ocean Road in southwest of Victoria on the Southern Ocean. It is believed to be the headland seen by Matthew Flinders from the '' Investigator'' during a break in showery weather, on the night o ...

midden and

Koongine Cave Koongine Cave is located in the Limestone Coast of South Australia. The cave is situated in a limestone ridge approximately from the coastline. It was occupied approximately 10,000 years ago for a period of approximately 1,500 years leaving up to ...

in Australia, and

Marki Alonia Marki Alonia is a prehistoric settlement in central Cyprus. Excavations were carried out at the site between 1990 and 2000 by David Frankel and Jennifer Webb of La Trobe University. These showed that it was occupied from the earliest phase of the Ea ...

Deneia Deneia ( el, Δένεια []; tr, Denya) is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus, west of Mammari. It is one of only four villages located within the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus, United Nations Buffer Zone, the other three being ...

and Politiko Kokkinorotsos in Cyprus.J. Allen, 2015. David Frankel. In Crafting the Past. Papers in Honour of David Frankel. Edited by C. Bird, R. Cosgrove and N. Stern, Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 50 Supplement (2015): 1–2.

Bibliography

* D. Frankel. 2019. ''Digging up a Village. A Book about Archaeology''. For primary-school age children. * D. Frankel. 2017. ''Between the Murray and the Sea. Aboriginal Archaeology in South-eastern Australia''. Sydney University Press, Sydney. * D. Frankel and J. Major (eds), 2017. ''Victorian Aboriginal Life and Customs through Early European Eyes''. La Trobe University EBureau, Melbourne. https://library.latrobe.edu.au/ebureau/ebook.html#victorian * D. Frankel and J. Major, 2014. ''Kulin and Kurnai. Victorian Aboriginal Life and Customs''. Messmate Press, Melbourne. * D. Frankel, J.M. Webb and S. Lawrence (eds), 2013. ''Archaeology in Environment and Technology: Intersections and Transformation''. Routledge, New York and London. * J.M. Webb and D. Frankel. 2013. ''Ambelikou Aletri. Metallurgy and Pottery Production in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus''. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology CXXXVIII, Uppsala. * G. Georgiou, J.M. Webb and D. Frankel, 2011. ''Psematismenos Trelloukkas. An Early Bronze Age Cemetery in Cyprus''. Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, Nicosia. * J.M. Webb, D. Frankel, K.O. Eriksson and J.B. Hennessy, 2009. ''The Bronze Age Cemeteries at Karmi Palealona and Lapatsa in Cyprus. Excavations by J.R.B. Stewart''. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology CXXXVI, Sävedalen. * D. Frankel and J.M. Webb 2006 ''Marki Alonia. An Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 1995–2000''. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology CXXIII:2. Sävedalen. * C.F.M. Bird and D. Frankel, 2005. ''An Archaeology of Gariwerd. From Pleistocene to Holocene in Western Victoria''. Tempus 8. (Archaeology and Material Culture Studies in Anthropology) University of Queensland, St Lucia. * D. Frankel and J.W. Rhoads (eds), 1994. ''Archaeology of a Coastal Exchange System: Sites and Ceramics in the Gulf of Papua''. Research Papers in Archaeology and Natural History No. 25. Division of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. * D. Frankel, 1991. ''Remains to be Seen: Archaeological Insights into Australian Prehistory''. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne. * D. Frankel, 1983. ''Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities: 7. Early and Middle Bronze Age Material in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford''. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology XX:7, Göteborg. * D. Frankel, 1979.''The Ancient Kingdom of Urartu''. British Museum Publications, London. * D. Frankel, 1979. ''Archaeologists at Work: Studies on Halaf Pottery''. British Museum Publications, London. * D. Frankel, 1974. ''Middle Cypriot White Painted Pottery: An Analytical Study of the Decoration''. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology XLII, Göteborg.

References

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