Catherine J. Frieman is an archaeologist and associate professor at the Australian National University. Her research investigates conservatism and innovation,and she is a specialist in material culture and technology.[1]
She graduated with a BA in archaeological studies from Yale.[2] Frieman completed her MSt and DPhil at the University of Oxford.[3] She held a Rhodes scholarship.[2] Her 2010 dissertation,which examined lithic artifacts from northwest Europe that are typically referred to as skeuomorphs,examined the adoption of metallurgy and metal artifacts.
Career
Frieman was appointed as a lecturer at ANU in after having held post-doctoral positions at Oxford,and lecturing at the University of Nottingham.[1] She currently holds an ARC DECRA fellowship for the project Conservatism as a dynamic response to the diffusion of innovations.[4] Frieman has co-edited volumes on flint daggers in prehistoric Europe and Bronze Age coastal archaeology finds in south-west Britain.[5] She is co-editor of the European Journal of Archaeology.[6] She has received teaching excellence awards from CASS,the Australian Office of Learning and Teaching[7] and the ANU Vice-Chancellor's office,[1][8] and has been appointed as an ANU Distinguished Educator.[8]
Frieman is the co-director of the Southeast Kernow Archaeological Survey,which is investigating the Neolithic to later Iron Age period in Cornwall.[1][9][10]
Selected publications
Frieman,C 2012. Going to pieces at the funeral:Completeness and complexity in early Bronze Age jet 'necklace' assemblages. Journal of Social Archaeology 12(3):334–355.
Frieman,C &Eriksen,B,eds,2015. Flint Daggers in Prehistoric Europe. Oxford:Oxbow Books.
Frieman,C,Bruck,J,Rebay-Salisbury,K et al. 2017. Aging Well:Treherne's 'Warrior's Beauty' Two Decades Later. European Journal of Archaeology 20(1):36 –73.
Frieman,C,Piper,P,Nguyen,K et al. 2017. Rach Nui:Ground stone technology in coastal Neolithic settlements of southern Vietnam. Antiquity 91 (358):933–946.
Frieman,C &Janz,L 2018. A Very Remote Storage Box Indeed:The Importance of Doing Archaeology with Old Museum Collections. Journal of Field Archaeology 43(4):257–268.
↑ Needham, Stuart (2013). Claimed by the sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay, and other marine finds of the Bronze Age. Parham, Dave,, Frieman, Catherine, 1982-. York. ISBN9781902771953. OCLC846787158.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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