Catherine Frieman Explained

Catherine J. Frieman
Occupation:	Archaeologist
Workplaces:	Australian National University
Thesis Title:	Skeuomorphs and stone-working : elaborate lithics from the early metal-using era in coastal, northwest Europe
Thesis Year:	2010

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]

Education

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. 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.

Frieman is the co-director of the Southeast Kernow Archaeological Survey, which is investigating the Neolithic to later Iron Age period in Cornwall.^{[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 2014. Double Edged blades : re-visiting the British (and Irish) flint daggers. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 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. 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr Catherine J. Frieman. Director (Research Services Division). researchers.anu.edu.au. en-US. 2019-08-18.
2. Web site: Catherine Frieman Profiles. The Rhodes Project. en-US. 2019-09-05.
3. Web site: Skeuomorphs and stone-working : elaborate lithics from the early metal-using era in coastal, northwest Europe. Frieman. C.. solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. 2019-08-18.
4. Web site: Conservatism as a dynamic r.... Director (Research Services Division). researchers.anu.edu.au. en-US. 2019-08-18.
5. Book: Needham, Stuart. Claimed by the sea : Salcombe, Langdon Bay, and other marine finds of the Bronze Age. Parham, Dave,, Frieman, Catherine, 1982-. 9781902771953. York. 846787158. 2013.
6. Web site: Editorial board. Cambridge Core. en. 2019-08-18.
7. Web site: 2015 Australian Awards for University Teaching.
8. Web site: Dr Catherine Frieman. 2018-03-21. ANU. en. 2019-08-18.
9. News: Bronze Age 'burial pot' uncovered. 2018-04-17. 2019-09-05. en-GB.
10. Web site: 4,000-Year-Old Urn Discovered in England – Archaeology Magazine. www.archaeology.org. 2019-09-05.