Barry L. Frankhauser is an archaeologist who has worked in Australia and New Zealand.
Works Frankhauser's Ph.D. thesis (published 1986) was a study of historical uses of the cabbage tree (Cordyline australis), 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.http://www.uvm.edu/cosmolab/papers/Bednarik_1990_560.pdf Robert G. Bednarik, author
References
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
External links Australian National University - PREH2004 : Australian Prehistory - 2nd Semester 2001 Society for Archaeological Sciences