Donald Pate is Professor of Archaeology at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He was awarded a PhD in Anthropology by Brown University in 1989. Prior to joining Flinders as the foundation appointment in archaeology, Pate completed post-doctoral research fellowships at Harvard University and the Australian National University. He established stable isotope analyses of archaeological bones and teeth as new teaching and research areas in Australia. Today these areas are represented as major sub-disciplines of archaeological chemistry in many universities throughout Australia and the surrounding regions. Under his leadership, Archaeology at Flinders University has emerged as one of the pre-eminent teaching and research programs in Australia. F. Donald Pate im Netz: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/donald.pate