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Catherine Frieman is an Associate Professor of European Archaeology at the Australian National University. She serves as lead Chief Investigator for an ARC Discovery Project on scientific mobility studies and previously held an ARC DECRA fellowship for research on innovation and conservatism. Currently, she co-directs the Southeast Kernow Archaeological Survey in Cornwall, UK, and led the Triabunna Barracks archaeological field school in Tasmania.
Her research spans lithic technology, skeuomorphism, and later prehistoric Northwest Europe, with a focus on understanding technological change and social dynamics. She has contributed extensively to debates on innovation, material culture, and interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology, genetics, and identity studies.
Recent publications highlight her work on NFTs as skeuomorphs, kinship in prehistoric Europe, and the role of DNA in identity studies. She investigates technological diffusion, gendered mobility, and the use of old museum collections in modern research.
Her scientific awards include the ARC DECRA fellowship. She has supervised students such as Francois-Xavier Faucounau, Annie Kwai, Alpheaus Graham, Zobule, and Anna Naupa.
She is affiliated with the Evolution of Cultural Diversity research group at ANU and collaborates on fieldwork projects in the UK and Australia.
