Helen Loney

Helen Loney is an archaeologist specialising in the study of prehistory. She has worked as a lecturer and tutor at the University of Glasgow (1996–2007), the University of Worcester (2007–2022), and the University of Oxford. Loney has a number of roles with archaeology societies, working on the council of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology and taking on editorial roles with the journal Post-Medieval Archaeology and the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.

Early life and education Loney was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating magna cum laude in 1983. She went on to complete a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, finishing in 1995 with a doctoral thesis titled The Development of Apennine Ceramic Manufacture: Xeroradiographic Analysis. Loney later emigrated to the UK. In 2008/09, Loney and Andrew Hoaen received funding to radiocarbon-date material recovered during fieldwork at Matterdale. In 2013 wrote the book Social Change and Technology in Prehistoric Italy, based on her PhD thesis. It was published by the Accordia Research Institute, and a review by Bob Chapman for the Prehistoric Society described it as a "welcome [addition] to the literature on later Italian prehistory". She is a course tutor in archaeology at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the University of Worcester.

In 2022 she was appointed Chair of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society and council member of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology. The following year Loney took on the role of editor of Post-Medieval Archaeology, working initially with Cait Scott and then Lara Band, before working as sole editor from 2024. She has also served as a member of the editorial board for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.

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