David Frankel is Professor and Honours Coordinator in Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Historical and European Studies at La Trobe University

La Trobe University

La Trobe University is a multi-campus university in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to become the third oldest university in the state of Victoria. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora; two other major campuses are...

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Professor Frankel studied archaeology at the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

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 (BA(Hons) 1970, MA(Hons) 1973). and Gothenburg University

Gothenburg University

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

British Museum

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 (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

Irrawang Pottery

In 1833-1856 James King established and ran a pottery at Irrawang in the lower Hunter Valley in New South Wales ....

 and Elizabeth Farm House in New South Wales

New South Wales

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 and participated in two seasons of Sydney University’s excavations at Zagora

Zagora

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 in Greece.

Professor Frankel was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Australian Academy of the Humanities

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 in 1993, and served on the Humanities Panel of the Australian Research Council

Australian Research Council

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 (1996-98). He was awarded the Prime Minister’s Centenary Award for services to Australia society and the humanities in 2003 and is a member of the Permanent Council of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences

International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences

The International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences is a learned society, linked through the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies to UNESCO, and concerned with the study of prehistory and protohistory...

 and joint Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology. His research interests include Australian Aboriginal archaeology with particular reference to south-eastern Australia and the archaeology of the Bronze Age

Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...

 of Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 having excavated in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

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, Moonlight Head midden and Koongine Cave in Australia, and Marki Alonia

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 Early Bronze Age until well into the Middle Bronze...

, Deneia

Deneia

Deneia 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, the other three being Pyla, Athienou and Troulloi....

 and Politiko Kokkinorotsos

Kokkinokremnos

Kokkinokremnos was a late Bronze Age settlement on Cyprus, abandoned after a brief occupation. The causes for its abandonmenment are disputed; although it occurred during the general decline of civilisation at the time, there are no distinctive traces of destruction...

in Cyprus.