Professor Donald Pate

Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science San Diego
Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy Brown
Grad. Cert. Tertiary Ed Flinders

Room: 110 Humanities
Phone: (08) 8201 2067
Fax: (08) 8201 2784
Email: donald.pate@flinders.edu.au

Research Interests

• Archaeological Science
• Palaeodiet
• Palaeoecology
• North American Prehistory
• Australian Indigenous Archaeology
• Modern Material Culture
• Behavioural Biology
• Community Health

Recent Publications

List of Publications

Current Research Projects

• Since 1998, Donald has been involved with a range of multi-disciplinary research projects addressing the bioarchaeology of skeletal remains recovered from archaeological sites in Eurasia. Projects included the examination of Classical Greek and Roman settlements in Italy utilising remains from the Metaponto and Pompeii sites. This project was funded by a Large ARC grant to Professor Maciej Henneberg and Dr Renata Henneberg of the Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide.

Overview

Donald joined the staff at Flinders University in mid-1990, following a two year post-doctoral research program in Archaeological Chemistry at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University and a Visiting Fellowship with the Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.

Donald's initial field training was in association with the Dolores Archaeological Project in the North American Southwest. Subsequent to this, he has conducted fieldwork in California, the Great Basin, Antigua, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Professor Pate was awarded two Australian Research Council (ARC) grants for 2002-2004. A Discovery Grant with Dr Soren Blau (Australian National University) and Dr Alison Betts (University of Sydney) was awarded for the project "Nomadic or sedentary? Determining lifestyle and subsistence of past populations in Central Asia using osteological, bone chemical and genetic techniques". Dr Blau received an Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

A Linkage Grant entitled "The Adelaide Hills Face Zone: Reconstructing the cultural landscape and sites of cultural significance" (Hills Face Zone Cultural Heritage Project) involved Pate and an interdisciplinary team of Flinders academics from Archaeology (Pam Smith, Keryn Walshe, Susan Piddock), Cultural Tourism (Lyn Leader-Elliott) and Geography (David Bass). In addition the following Industry Partners were involved: Planning SA, Boral Resources, Tourism SA, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Adelaide Hills Council, Burnside City Council, City of Onkaparinga, Tea Tree Gully Council, City of Mitcham and Marion City Council. Dr Smith received an Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

Professor Pate edited Australian Archaeology, the journal of the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA), and was member of the Executive of the AAA from 1999-2005