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Professor David Frankel

Professor Room:Martin Building 168 Tel: (61 3) 9479 1429 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881 Email: d.frankel@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: BA Syd, MA Syd, PhD Göteborg, FAHA

Professor David Frankel studied archaeology at the University of Sydney and Gothenburg University, where he specialised on Cypriot prehistory. After some years in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, The British Museum, he returned to Australia in 1978 to take up a lectureship at La Trobe University, where he is now Professor in Archaeology. In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and from 1996 to 1998 served on the Humanities Panel of the Australian Research Council. His research interests include Australian Aboriginal archaeology with particular reference to south-eastern Australia; and the archaeology of Bronze Age Cyprus from the perspective excavations at Marki-Alonia and Deneia (including issues of site formation and archaeological construction, migration and ethnicity, demography and social interaction).

Research Projects

• The Social Archaeology of Bronze Age Cyprus. Excavations at Marki Alonia
  
• Deneia: A study of regionalism, population and society in Bronze Age Cyprus
  
• Politiko Kokkinorotsos. A Chalcolithic cite in central Cyprus
  
• Aboriginal Archaeology of Western Victoria

Research Grants

Professor David Frankel and Dr Jenny Webb have been awarded an ARC grant of $482,000 over three years for their project, Diversity, interaction and change in prehistory: the third millennium BCE in Cyprus.