Dr. Kristina A Franke

Kristina A Franke is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, and an associate of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and the University of New England, Australia. She received her doctorate in archaeology and archaeometallurgy at UCL, London, having studied Near Eastern Archaeology, Semitic Languages, and Prehistory and Early History at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität, München and The Technology and Analysis of Archaeological Materials at UCL, London.

She took part in excavations and surveys in Anatolia, Syria, Yemen, Iran, and Germany. Her current research focuses on ancient metallurgy in Iran as part of the Mining Regions of the Central Plateau project, which is part of the DFG Priority Programme 2176 The Iranian Highlands. Her major interests are pyrotechnologies and production processes, modes and patterns of exchange, the significance of craft in ancient societies and methods in archaeometry. Her research focuses predominantly on ancient south-west Asia.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2397-1462