Barry L. Frankhauser

Barry L. Frankhauser is an archaeologist who has worked in Australia and New Zealand.

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Frankhauser's Ph.D. thesis (published 1986) was a study of historical uses of the cabbage tree, an important food and fibre source in the Māori culture for at least 800 years. The Māori Television network produced a TV documentary on the subject, using his thesis as a starting point, which aired in 2004. The documentary includes an interview with Frankhauser.

In 1990 Frankhauser participated in a two-day seminar (Geochemical Methods for Dating of Rock Art) held in Canberra, which drew archeologists from three continents to evaluate the scientific soundness of the cation-ratio method of dating ancient rock art specimens. That seminar concluded that the method had significant drawbacks and should be re-evaluated as a definitive test.^[1]

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^ http://www.uvm.edu/cosmolab/papers/Bednarik_1990_560.pdf^{[permanent dead link]} Robert G. Bednarik, author

Smith, M.A., M. Spriggs, and B. Frankhauser (eds) 1993 Sahul in review: Pleistocene archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia. Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Occasional papers in prehistory 24

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[1] ttp://www.uvm.edu/cosmolab/papers/Bednarik_1990_560.pdf^{[permanent dead link]} Robert G. Bednarik, author

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