Catherine J. Frieman is an archaeologist and associate professor at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

. Her research investigates conservatism and innovation, and she is a specialist in material culture and technology.

Education

She graduated with a BA in archaeological studies from

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. Frieman completed her MSt and DPhil at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in contin ...

. She held a

Rhodes scholarship The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world ...

. 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. She currently holds an ARC DECRA fellowship for the project ''Conservatism as a dynamic response to the diffusion of innovations.'' Frieman has co-edited volumes on flint daggers in prehistoric Europe and Bronze Age coastal archaeology finds in south-west Britain. She is co-editor of the ''

European Journal of Archaeology ''European Journal of Archaeology'' is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal of the European Association of Archaeologists. Since 2017, it has been published by Cambridge University Press. The journal was entitled the ''Journal of Euro ...

''. She has received teaching excellence awards from CASS, the Australian Office of Learning and Teaching and the ANU Vice-Chancellor's office, and has been appointed as an ANU Distinguished Educator. Frieman is the co-director of the Southeast Kernow Archaeological Survey, which is investigating the Neolithic to later Iron Age period in

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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 The ''Journal of Social Archaeology'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of archaeology, in particular with regard to social interpretations of the past. Its editor-in-chief is Lynn Meskell ( Stanford University), ...

'' 12(3): 334–355. *Frieman, C 2014. Double Edged blades : re-visiting the British (and Irish) flint daggers. ''

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society In academia and librarianship, conference proceedings is a collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference or workshop. Conference proceedings typically contain the contributions made by researchers at the confer ...

'' 80: 33–65. *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. ''

'' 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 Antiquity or Antiquities may refer to: Historical objects or periods Artifacts *Antiquities, objects or artifacts surviving from ancient cultures Eras Any period before the European Middle Ages (5th to 15th centuries) but still within the histo ...

'' 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.

References

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