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Dennys Frenez

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Dennys Frenez

Scholar-in-Residence, Earth Sciences

  • PhD: University of Bologna, Italy, 2011

Email: dennys.frenez -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Office: AB 12/402B


  • Selected Publications

    1. D. Frenez. Were the Cretulae (Clay Sealings) from the Indus Town of Lothal Part of an Administrative Archive? Contextual, Interpretative, and Comparative Evidence, South Asian Studies 40(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2024.2401206, 2024.

    2. D. Frenez. Indus Valley: Early Commercial Connections with Central and Western, Asia. Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Asian History. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.595, 2024.

    3. D. Frenez , F. Genchi, H. David-Cuny, S. Al-Bakri. The Early Iron Age collective tomb LCG-1 at Dibba al-Bayah, Sultanate of Oman: Long-distance exchange and cross-cultural interaction, Antiquity 95(379): 104-124. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.224, 2021.

    4. D. Frenez. Cross-Cultural Trade and Socio-Technical Developments in the Oman Peninsula during the Bronze Age, ca. 3200 to 1600 BCE, OCNUS 27: 7-47., 2020.

    5. D. Frenez , M. Vidale. How Did a Chimaera Get Lost in Margush? Indus-Related Seals from Bronze Age Oases Along the Amu Darya and Murghab Rivers, in D. Usai, S. Tuzzato and M. Vidale (eds.), Tales of Three Worlds: Archaeology and Beyond: Asia, Italy, Africa: A Tribute to Sandro Salvatori. Oxford: Archaeopress, 53-64., 2020.

    6. D. Frenez. The Indus Civilization Trade with the Oman Peninsula, in D. Frenez, R. Garba (eds.), In the Shadow of the Ancestors. The Prehistoric Foundations of the Early Arabian Civilization in Oman: Second Expanded Edition (S. Cleuziou and M. Tosi). Oxford, UK: Archaeopress, 385-396.,2020.

    7. D. Frenez. Manufacturing and trade of Asian elephant ivory in Bronze Age Middle Asia. Evidence from Gonur Depe (Margiana, Turkmenistan), Archaeological Research in Asia 15:13-33, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2017.08.002, 2018.

    8. D. Frenez. Private Person or Public Persona? Use and Significance of Standard Indus Seals as Markers of Formal Socio-Economic Identities, in D. Frenez, G.M. Jamison, R.W. Law, M. Vidale, R.H. Meadow (eds.), Walking with the Unicorn: Social Organization and Material Culture in Ancient South Asia: J. M. Kenoyer Felicitation Volume. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress, 166-193., 2018.

    9. J.M. Kenoyer, D. Frenez. Stone Beads in Oman during the 3rd to 2nd millennia BCE: New Approaches to the Study of Trade and Technology, Beads. Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers 30: 63-76, 2018.

    10. D. Frenez , G.M. Jamison, R.W. Law, M. Vidale, R.H. Meadow (eds.). Walking with the Unicorn. Social Organization and Material Culture in Ancient South Asia. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing.,2018.

  • Work Experience

    • Scholar-in-Residence , Archaeological Sciences Centre, Department of Earth Sciences (01 August 2024 - 30 September 2024)
    • Official adviser for the Archaeology & Heritage sector, Ministry of Heritage & Tourism, Sultanate of Oman, 2017-Present
    • Lecturer, University of Padova, Italy, 2021